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Never forget how close we came to this Doofus being our VP!
Posted on 01/21/2020 1:38:31 PM PST by billorites
People close to Robert Mueller believe "something happened" to the former special counsel over the course of his two-year Russia investigation, according to a reporter.
The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig, who is the co-author of the new book A Very Stable Genius about President Trump, described on Tuesday how difficult it was for some of Mueller's close family friends to watch his shaky testimony before Congress last summer.
“Phil [Rucker] and I, my co-author, we are not medical professionals, but over and over again, John, we heard from people who are very close to Bob Mueller who found him a different person, a changed person, after two years of this investigation,” Leonnig told CNN host John Berman.
“They don’t know what that’s about,” Leonnig continued. “Some of them do and haven’t shared that with us. But they know that something happened. He’s a different person. He was stumbling over his words. You saw him in July in his testimony before Congress, there were people that I spoke to who are very, very good family friends of his who said, ‘I couldn’t watch the television anymore, I had to turn it off. It wasn’t the Bob I knew.'"
After a 22-month investigation, Mueller's team did not find sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy took place between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. He also declined to make a determination about whether Trump may have obstructed justice but did lay out 10 instances of possible obstruction that Democrats viewed as a road map to continue investigating and possibly seek impeachment. Trump is now facing two articles of impeachment stemming from his dealings with Ukraine.
Speculation about Mueller's health began to swirl when the former FBI director, known for being sharp and competent, appeared to have difficulty hearing lawmakers' questions and failed to recall key facts from his report when he testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees in July.
In their book, Leonnig and Rucker wrote that when Attorney General William Barr met Mueller before his report was released, Mueller read from his notes, and his "hands shook as he held the paper. His voice was shaky, too." Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, "couldn’t help but worry about Mueller’s health.”
The Washington Post reported in July that Mueller's team denied rumors that the then-74-year-old's cognitive acuity was wavering, prompting Democrats to compel him to appear publicly. His resulting performance had some Democrats privately questioning whether Mueller was all there mentally.
“It was a painful reminder that age catches up to all of us,” one unnamed House Democrat who questioned Mueller said at the time. “Here you have this Vietnam hero and this post-Sept. 11 FBI director. You could tell he was having a hard time hearing, and it was like, ‘Ugh! This is not how I want him to be remembered.'"
Some critics, Berman said, believe Mueller just was not up to grappling with the "modern era of political warfare and may have got gamed out by the presidency."
“Many of our sources felt very strongly that Bob Mueller was playing a 1950s Boy Scout game," Leonnig said. "He was being an honorable icon and standard-bearer of the Department of Justice, whereas Bill Barr was playing in Trump’s 2000s, and he was messaging this very well. He was the first person to get out the message: Donald Trump’s been exonerated."
In early October, it was announced that Mueller had returned to work at the private law firm WilmerHale.
Alcohol fetal syndrome.
It’s the weather.
It’s something we share with California.............
Does anybody seriously believe that Mueller had anything to do with the so-called "Mueller Report"? Mueller? Mueller?
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Never forget how close we came to this Doofus being our VP!
not in hurricane alley where i am, currently 40 degrees here, under another freeze warning tonight...
Mueller is pulling a “Vinny the Chin.”
At some point age and its afflictions catch up with all of us.
Only those who are younger, think they are immune and getting old age symptoms will never catch up to them....until it does.
Hang out with Hillary’s lawyers for two years? I’m surprised he’s still breathing.
Imagine what would happen to a normal person if they told bald faced lies to the court.
I don’t feel sorry for him at all.
TDS! Trump is the greatest liberal mind fncker in the world! He is like a virus that makes evil loose its mind even further!
So IOW if that thing hadn’t happened he would have released a report that would have seen DJT impeached *and* convicted within a month of its release?
Well is wasn’t Arkancide as he is still breathing.
My response to “Our guy’s retarded. We want to do it again” would be something like “Your all retarded (and crooked), and NO do overs”.
FORMER GOP Senators Muk, Rom and Coll...Traitors...non of this merit impeachment...in 1999 you dimwit Collins there was a GD crime - you dipsh*T! This time there is not and this has been a total hose job...illegally processed and thrown together so as to not allow the President to be properly defined in all quarters and yet you are to damn stupid to see the differences...there are no damn parallel between the cases whatsoever! and you a Senator - BS!
No brain, no logic, no common sense! Just arrogant stupidity - you Muk and that jealous SOB Rommmmmmmmmmey!
The all belong in the Dems CLOWN CAR in the CLOWN SHOW - Larmar too I hear!
“Mueller deserves an Oscar for his performance. When you don’t have the facts, act like a man suffering from dementia.”
Watch for the same behavior from the house rats involved, now, in their faux impeachment bs in the $inate after their fake impeachment is over.
After they get their asses kicked and their egos destroyed in the faux impeachment bs. They will become infected with the Herr Mueller loser in life syndrome, when it really counted.
When, President Trump gets reelected with a huge majority of votes and the electoral college. They and their fake impeachment scam will be blamed for Trump’s fantastic win, this November.
Then, these losers will be treated like lepers or homeless losers by their fellow elite dems and former mediot buddies.
They will then not want to be around DC and their disappointed and hostile Deep State masters and former tv mediot buddies.
Watch and see how many pull a Mueller, after they get their asses handed to them by Trump’s legal team in their fake impeachment bs.
How many will retire “to spend more time with their families before and after the elections in November ?”
Mueller deserves an Oscar for his performance. When you don’t have the facts, act like a man suffering from dementia.
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Interesting thought and could actually be right on the money. Well done!
Mueller was shaken because he had the truth and lied through his teeth! He stated that there was no foreign collusion found. He HAD to know that that was not true.
The facts were that the DNC and Hillary’s campaign HAD colluded with foreign entities in order produce the bogus dossier which started the bogus series of FISA warrants resulting in the use of the Federal government to spy on a presidential campaign followed by spying on the President, himself.
He was shaking because he was a short series of questions away from having to admit to his lies and the lies of his report! A few good questions would have fully revealed the extent of the Deep State.
It’s the Trump curse. Bad things happen who to those who try and hurt our President. Janet Reno says she will not live to see Trump President then dies the very day before the election. McCain dies, Cummings dies, and Michael Avenatti was transferred from prison in California to a very cold cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan. He is currently freezing in “El Chapo’s” Guzman’s former cell. Michael Avenatti did not hang himself. Yet.
and all posed for holy pictures.
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LMAO! Now that there is damn funny. Good on you!
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