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The Folly of the Mueller Investigation
The Folly of the Mueller Investigation | National Review
April 4, 2019 ~ By Andrew C. McCarthy
A hysteria without a cause; a report without a point.
The pointlessness of it all. That is the major takeaway from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated final report on the Trump/Russia probe.
After an exhaustive 22-month investigation, Mueller found that there was no criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. This was already manifest to anyone who had closely followed the investigation — anyone, that is, who had taken note that no predicate crime was specified when Mueller was appointed (the special-counsel regulations require one), or anyone who had read the indictments Mueller filed, which demonstrated that Russia’s operations predated Trump’s entry into the 2016 campaign, that some of them were actually anti-Trump in nature, and that Russia (which is notoriously adept at espionage) neither needed nor sought American collaborators. “There is no allegation,” observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in announcing charges against Russian operatives brought by the special counsel he had appointed, “that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity.” Never was such an allegation even hinted at against the president, nor against any of his associates, a handful of whom were charged either with crimes that had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign or with process crimes (mostly lying to investigators) that were not committed until after the campaign was over.
But there were no crimes, actual or colorably suspected, and there was no reason to appoint a special counsel — especially one who ended up kicking the can to the Justice Department anyway. The country has been taken on a pointless two-year ride.
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There were never any crimes. There was no Russian Collusion By Trump. There was never a reason to appoint a special counsel. There was no investigation of collusion.
Mueller's Special Council was just a two year attempt to sabotage the Trump presidency and overturn an election.
The appointment of Mueller by Rosenstein has been spun to place it in a good light by claiming, as Andy does here, that Rosenstein was able to take it out of the clutches of the corrupt McCabe and give control to the noble Mueller.
Mueller hired the same FBI team (Strzok and Page) as well as unethical rabid partisans like Weissman to staff his team. Mueller only removed Strzok and Page when evidence of their anti-Trump bias began to escape outside of the team. Mueller was part of the corruption. And it wasn’t pointless.
Communications records that might have evidenced a conspiracy among Comey, McCabe, Mueller, Rosenstein and others in the appointment of the Special Counsel and in other matters of the illegitimate government investigation of the Trump campaign have probably been purged in the ordinary course of business after the years-long delay gained by the Mueller probe in staving off an examination of the origin of the coup against Trump. The DOJ and the FBI cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.