The History is already being written (Part 2: The Mueller investigation)
The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book Rigged:
"Mueller is a great selection. Impeccable credentials. Should be widely accepted," Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican head of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, tweeted.
Mueller and his team knew that there was no Russian collusion at the time of Mueller's appointment, so he and his team quickly focused on trying to show Trump had obstructed justice. Trump's offense? Complaining that he had been accused of a crime he didn't commit and being less trusting of the special councel's propriety than most other Republicans.
Whenever he complained, Republicans would rush to defend Mueller, vocalizing their support and pushing legislation to protect him from getting fired by Trump. Mueller's team was staffed with partisan Democrats who had close ties to the Clintons, but Mueller himself was a Republican who had served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013. This was by design, as his reputation was supposed to protect the entire investigation.
A few members of Congress stood out for understanding the Russia collusion hoax for what it was early on. Representative Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was immediately suspicious of the Russia collusion charges, even though he was a longtime hawk who had been sounding the alarm about Russia and its election meddling for years. Because he fought against the hysteria, he recieved unending ire from the media and his colleagues across the aisle. He was even sidelined by an ethics investigation that dragged on needlessly for much of 2017 until he was finally exonerated.
His dogged investigation, however, led to the finding that the dossier, far from being reliable intelligence for wich the FBI could vouch, was secretly funded by Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
A report Nunes put out concerning improprieties in the process of securing warrants to spy on the Trump campaign was vindicated years afterward when the inspector general of the Department of Justice issued a report about those failures, including the fact that one member of the special counsel's team had falsified evidence against Page to secure a warrant that was used to spy on the Trump campaign.
For years, news stories were published and broadcast about Russia and Trump. The country was whipped into a frenzy, and polls showed the vast majority of Democrats believed Trump was compromised by Russia. A Quinnipiac poll in December 2017 showed that 86 percent of Democratic voters believed "the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election." And when Quinnipiac asked Democrats the same question in July 2018, 74 percent responded they believed Trump had colluded with Russia. The 2018 mid-term elections were held at the height of the hysteria, and DEmocrats rode that wave to huge victories in the House.
It all fell apart in March 2019, when Mueller's expensive and expansive special counsel probe closed without a single American's being charged for colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less President Trump. It was a huge blow to the Democrats and their media allies. They tried to keep the collusion hoax going, suggesting that new attorney general William Barr had improperly downplayed the findings of the special counsel, but the conspiracy had run out of gas.
Democrats had hoped that the special counsel's Russia report would form the basis of an impeachment probe. Democrats hatched a last-ditch attempt to get Trump when they had Mueller testify before Congress about how his report was actually much worse for Trump than it seemed. But his testimony was disjointed, and Mueller seemed confused about the conclusions of the probe he had ostensibly led. As a result, the effort failed, and impeachment was dead in its tracks.
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Next time will be the faux impeachment (Part 3)
hopefully the full unredacted and declassified report will be released in the thick of the 2024 campaign, torpedoing the hopes and fevered dreams of the white supremacists, fascists, and autocrats that have been a pox on the usa for the last 60 years.
We'll call that "a last-ditch, one more time, final Hail Mary!"
Lol.. I'm sure the full "unredacted and declassified" report that Democrats had access to and didn't bother to impeach Trump over contains all sort of blockbusters...
It's amazing to see, years later, people still clinging to the "just wait till we see what Mueller reports" trope. You'd think the embarrassment of hyping and promising what turned into so many lies for years would have ended that delusion, but faith dies hard for the true believers.
And then, after that's released, they will promise that Mueller's secret diary contains the proof that will finally prove them right if only it could be released to the public.
I wonder why the extremely partisan vessel Merrick Garland hasn't released it?
It's kind of like “The Da Vinci Code”
in comedy, timing is everything...
This is more like a Greek Tragedy for future generations to ponder.
You're right.
The more popular term for these people are...democrats.
So with that, they knew there was nothing to investigate and continued to carry out a partisan witch hunt and for what? Save face? Avoid the ire of the Clintons and the Democrats?
What's more laughable is that to this day, the left scream there was collusion.