Mueller's ignominious finale
The Hill,
by
Victoria Toensing
&
Joseph DiGenova
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/26/2019 2:56:34 PM
We were promised that Robert Mueller’s testimony would put life into his report, the movie version of the special counsel’s investigation. Instead, we got a cadaverous presentation from a once vigorous Marine and prosecutor.
During nearly seven hours of testimony before two House committees on Wednesday, Mueller asked for a question to be repeated more than 30 times. He replied more than 200 times that he did not know or the matter was “not within my purview.” He could not remember which president appointed him as a U.S. attorney. When he did respond, Mueller’s answers were laced with
Reply 1 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/26/2019 4:45:36 PM (No. 134637)
Two observations on this excellent article.
First, the Russian woman lawyer at the Trump Tower meeting was only allowed into the United States because Lousy Loretta Lynch had granted her a visa waiver, just prior to the Trump Tower meeting! Coincidence??.
Second, a question - how many millions of dollars has the CIA/FBI given to fat old professors in Europe, sitting in pubs, shoveling smoke? I suspect that the scandal resides in those expenditures. Fake intelligence!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/26/2019 6:46:40 PM (No. 134734)
Mueller’s testimony ranks right up there with Christine Balsy Ford’s.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Janylou 7/26/2019 8:56:29 PM (No. 134821)
Team Mueller should be very worried. I imagine Barr was raptly listening to his testimony which was why Mueller made the correction in the afternoon hearing. Mueller and his thugs should be especially worried about Mifsud and what he had shared with Horowitz
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 7/26/2019 11:35:09 PM (No. 134903)
A previous article talked about how the Rats think Mueller "Tiptoed around the four corners of the report." a stunningly stupid, meaningless characterization of what Mueller really did do before them Wednesday... in my own opinion. But, reading this, I begin to understand why Mueller might want to go home and bury his head under the pillows. He is a bald faced liar and a charlatan. Mueller just might be in some serious legal trouble himself!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/27/2019 6:51:40 AM (No. 134994)
I for one must admit that the Mueller testimony did remind me of an excellent movie. If you have seen the marvelous movie "Hacksaw Ridge" you too might have seen what I noticed. Mr Mueller gave an academy award performance of the man who played Ghoul in the same outfit as the main character, Desmond Doss. After Ghoul got dinged in the head he was conscious but babbling. Sort of like Mueller.
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Demtards always planned the optics of mean R's attacking feeble Mueller would be part of their strategy
F Dems....F RINOS
GO TRUMP
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
little guy 7/27/2019 8:49:08 AM (No. 135099)
After reading this article, I think a good part of Mueller's feebleness was an act. It's clear he was smart enough to lie under oath on several occasions. Moreover, he did respond on occasion in a manner that showed he had some light behind his eyes. Should anyone in DOJ wish to prosecute him on perjury (something that will never happen BTW) he can always claim he was incapacitated in some way.
The stench from the swamp continues. If ANYONE is prosecuted in this coup attempt I will be amazed and surprised.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/27/2019 9:29:17 AM (No. 135135)
I like one commenter also believe Mueller was acting. A person is not a career attorney and come off as being so dumb. The lack of knowledge of something as simple a Fusion GPS and it's ties to Clinton was a bit of a stretch.
One other observation why do these committees chaired by 'the fatso with the old belt' Humpty Dumpty and the other by a 'pencil neck google eyed geek' always accuse the Republicans of 'attacking' when asking smart, pertinent questions when they have the floor?
Sorry if a democrat like the Creature from the Black Lagoon Clymer wishes to grand stand by thanking Mueller for his service and his stellar career in the service and FBI then proceed to ask only softball questions "is Robert Mueller your name" or "is that Mueller spelled with two LLs"? They really get feisty when it's a Republican or conservative sitting in the hot seat.
The entire committee and Nadler's 'witch hunt' is not in my purview that's for sure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trapper 7/27/2019 9:29:56 AM (No. 135136)
The thing is, the Democrats worked with him for weeks preparing him to testify. They MUST have known how bad he was going to be. They also must have known the Republicans weren’t going to just sit there and let the Democrats feed him leading questions without any pushback and cross-examination. They must have known he could not handle it. But they either didn’t care or they were delusional, refusing to accept what their eyes saw, and so they pushed him anyway. The Democrats put an obviously confused and frail old man on top of a raging bull and opened the chute. Shame on them.
On the other hand it was Mueller’s own ego, refusing to accept the current state of his diminished abilities, that prevented him from just saying “no.”
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/27/2019 10:20:58 AM (No. 135212)
I don't believe Mueller was confused. He recognized when he should be confused, not hear, or understand. By the way, the answer "I'm not going to get into that" was the first time in Congress's history that that answer was ever accepted before a Congressional Committee hearing. Then, "outside my purview". Who decided that? Mueller? I demand that the DOJ review Mueller's testimony, and make him come back and testify to things clearly within his purview, and to assert the 5th, if he does not want to incriminate himself.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Readaholic 7/27/2019 11:09:53 AM (No. 135254)
Mueller's performance reminded me of Skyler's White's interview with the IRS agent.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/27/2019 12:22:23 PM (No. 135331)
Mueller is a man without honor, without scruples, and without a moral compass. Regardless of what he was before, that's what he is now. Whatever reputation he enjoyed as a straight shooter, a good Marine, an ethical attorney or a stand-up guy is in tatters, and rightfully so.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2019 12:30:17 PM (No. 135340)
There are some reports that venture the belief that Mueller was instructed (by Weissman?) to bumble, to fuss around about coming up with answers, in order to use up the questioner’s allotted time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2019 1:02:27 PM (No. 135363)
Re #13, Mueller’s minder (the guy whose name starts with a Z) who was permitted to be sworn in and sit with him) may also have told him to use up the questioners’ time allotments…
To those people, it was all a game.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/27/2019 1:33:59 PM (No. 135393)
As usual with the media when they can win by no other means, begins to pile-on the person seen as a GOP nemesis with deepening assaults IN ORDER TO make casual observers feel sorry for the perceived nemesis. I saw it happen with Bill Clinton during the Blue Dress Scandal. There comes a time when we all know that Mueller is only a figurehead, a time when his side admits they've always known it, and a time when our side starts to let upon him. He is NOT innocent in all this. But he has not, and probably will not own up to it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/27/2019 1:56:24 PM (No. 135431)
John Solomon wrote, in another of his excellent articles for The Hill,
here is now compelling evidence Mueller omitted or misrepresented important facts about Mifsud and Papadopoulos that could change the public’s understanding of events. And those aren’t the only omissions and factual errors to emerge.
Mueller never disclosed in his report that Manafort business partner Konstantin Kilimnik, identified in the final report as having ties to Russian intelligence, actually was a regular informer for the State Department from 2012-2017. The report also incorrectly identifies an American citizen from the former Soviet republic of Georgia as a Russian.
Such omissions and mistakes add to the mistrust of the final product. And as the Durham team’s overture to Roh makes clear, Mueller’s testimony before Congress may not be the final verdict for his findings.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/454409-robert-mueller-soon-may-be-exposed-as-the-magician-of-omission-on-russia
(Solomon’s article was also posted here a few days ago)
Now comes the investigation of the investigators...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
EQKimball 7/27/2019 3:28:19 PM (No. 135518)
Robert Mueller sounded no more inarticulate, dazed or confused that Nancy Pelosi on any given day of the week. Of course, that is not saying much.
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They also talk about Joseph Mifsud.