{"id":38128,"date":"2019-07-26T01:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38128"},"modified":"2019-07-26T01:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:47:04","slug":"in-defense-of-robert-mueller-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38128","title":{"rendered":"In defense of Robert Mueller III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I feel the need to defend Robert S. Mueller III, although he doesn’t need little ol’ me to stand up for him against critics of his daylong testimony before two congressional committees.<\/p>\n

Right-wing critics have said the former special counsel sounded lost, almost feeble, not in charge of the facts, he was hard of hearing.<\/p>\n

Left-wing critics have expressed disappointment that Mueller didn’t provide them with the “aha moment” they were expecting.<\/p>\n

Let’s get a grip here.<\/p>\n

Mueller conducted that lengthy investigation into allegations that the Donald Trump presidential campaign conspired to collude with Russian election hackers. He didn’t find enough evidence of collusion. He also looked into whether Trump obstructed justice.<\/p>\n

He said in his report and again on Wednesday that he didn’t clear Trump of obstruction. He said that the president committed crimes. He just couldn’t indict him because he happens to be the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

I thought Mueller did precisely what he said he would do. He was a reluctant witness. He said in May that the report would stand as his “testimony” were he summoned to appear before Congress. His delivery this week kept faith with what he declared in May.<\/p>\n

I thought the ex-special counsel\/former FBI director\/career prosecutor\/decorated Vietnam War combat Marine behaved with decorum and dignity. I should point out that during the two years of his Russia probe he maintained his stone-cold silence in the face of constant harangues, harassment and hassling from Donald Trump and his sympathizers.<\/p>\n

Robert Mueller remains, as one of Trump’s former lawyers once called him, “an American hero.”<\/p>\n

So what if he didn’t deliver the impeachment goods? He told us weeks ago we should not expect such a thing.<\/p>\n

I shall remind everyone, though, of a critical point that Mueller made. It is that the Russians attacked our electoral system in “sweeping and systematic” fashion and are doing so at this moment in advance of the next presidential election.<\/p>\n

The villain here is the president who refuses to acknowledge what the rest of the nation already knows. To that end, I want to thank Robert Mueller for reminding us yet again of the danger that Donald Trump poses to this nation.<\/p>\n\n

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I feel the need to defend Robert S. Mueller III, although he doesn’t need little ol’ me to stand up for him against critics of his daylong testimony before two congressional committees. Right-wing critics have said the former special counsel sounded lost, almost feeble, not in charge of the facts, he was hard of hearing. … Continue reading In defense of Robert Mueller III<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,7225,7131,7146,3983,7093,6736,7793],"class_list":["post-38128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-2020-election","tag-collusion","tag-obstruction-of-justice","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-russian-hackers","tag-trump-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38129,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128\/revisions\/38129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}