Posted on 07/29/2019 5:31:20 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony was lethal to the legal pretext for keeping the Russian collusion story alive.
Indeed, the maundering and semi-coherent manner with which he answered the questions posed to him during Wednesday’s hearings suggests that he was probably never up to the job of running the special counsel investigation into Russian interference with our 2016 election.
Mueller’s excruciating testimony made it obvious that he was unfamiliar with crucial passages of the report that bears his name. He had obvious difficulty grasping the point of many questions he was asked.
The report is so tainted by Mueller’s obvious incapacity — combined with the notorious partisanship of the people who actually investigated the president and wrote the so-called Mueller report — that it will now be suicidal for the Democrats to pursue impeachment.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) lecturing Mueller for flouting special counsel rules:
You told us this morning and in your report that you made no determination so respectfully director, you didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says, “Write a confidential report about decisions reached.” Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that weren’t reached. You wrote 180 pages about decisions that weren’t reached about potential crimes that weren’t charged.… And respectfully, by doing that you managed to violate every principle in the most sacred of traditions about prosecutors not offering extra prosecutorial analysis about potential crimes that aren’t charged.
The aging G-Man delivered the coup de grâce. Resuscitation was “outside his purview,” as he would phrase it. It’s time for the Democrats to call the undertaker and give impeachment a decent burial.
Mueller’s reputation and impeachment weren’t Wednesday’s only casualties. Democratic credibility is also bleeding out.
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Playing dumb and acting confused is a good way to avoid answering uncomfortable questions.
Hillary Clinton is a master at this. Remember the Pretty in pink interview. Rush had a funny parody of it.
He was pretty demented no matter who was asking the questions..
“All I have to say is DJT must be super mega squeaky clean to have been cleared. They couldn’t even charge him with skipping a house on his paper route when he was 10 years old.”
I can hear the Democrats now: “The newspaper landed on the steps and not on Mr. Smith’s porch. The young Donald Trump did not stop to pick it up. You must impeach!”
Their goal is to defeat Trump in the next Presidential.
Impeachment is not the goal. Damaging Trump is.
Very few...
The rest of the party is a bunch of chamber of commerce little girls cowering in the corner not wanting to offend anyone.
They do not want Trump as POTUS...never did...never will.
In allowing Mr. Trump into the primaries the GOP, searching for a foil for Jeb, was too clever by half and ended up stomping on its own d**k.
Precisely. I would very much like to see/hear a Project Veritas video of what the real Robert Mueller looks/sounds like now.
It has worked several times for Missus Clinton. Just answer “I can’t remember” or “I don’t recall” an aggregate 250 times; and then go write a book full of lies and exaggerations about things you clearly remember.
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