Haven’t been listening to much, but Mueller does not seem to be acquitting himself well. Anyway, some of the questions he’s getting from Republicans (and to which he has no good answers) are described here. The remarkable thing about it is that it comes from The Nation.
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What rock has Mueller been hiding under that he’s never heard of Fusion GPS? Twitter responds.
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Mueller is being exposed as the magician of omission on Russia.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Mueller goes from savior of the Republic to bumbling fool in the course of five hours.
Pretty obvious why he was reluctant to testify. It’s become quite clear that he didn’t lead the investigation, or even read “his” own report. He was led by his partisan investigators by the nose.
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Mueller was supposed to “bring the report to life,” but even an NBC analyst says that he “sucked the life out of” it.
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The painful, pointless testimony of Robert Mueller.
[Thursday-morning update]
The Mueller testimony was box-office poison.
In retrospect, someone, at least toward the end, should have asked Mueller who wrote the report, since it was clear that either he hadn’t read it himself, or was so bereft of his faculties that he couldn’t recall key parts of it.
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Heh.
House Democrats: We won’t rest until Trump is stopped…OK, time for recess.
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Mueller’s performance raises questions about his handling of the investigation. You don’t say.
And was it a sign of a guilty conscience?
[Late-morning update]
Was Aaron Zebley running the Mueller probe? He’s the one who authorized the destruction of the Clinton henchpeoples’ cellphones.
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