Cog wrote:Mueller said not even a month ago that his 400 page report speaks for itself. Why testify now? Mueller didn't indict anyone in this report and found insufficient evidence to proceed on collusion and obstruction by anyone. His job is over. Could it be that the Trump impeachment is going nowhere and the House Dems are trying get it back on track by Mueller adding some gasoline to the fire?
I agree Plant that Mueller has a lot to answer for and once again this is going to backfire spectacularly for the Dems. I'll be watching this one closely.
Plantagenet wrote:Trump just accused Mueller of committing a crime when he deleted the anti-Trump text messages of Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa Page.
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Technically, I think Trump is right. When you are using a government owned phone, with the phone service paid by the government, the phone should only be used for official business. Mueller probably broke some "open records" law when he had the phones deleted.
A more serious problem is that those phones contained official records of parts of the Mueller investigation. Mueller has no right to selectively delete some records and not others---the fact he would do that shows bias. There is a good chance the phones contained exculpatory evidence showing that the investigators were biased against Trump and his fellow republicans.
In these cases normally the investigators aren't charged with a crime, but instead all charges against those prosecuted are dismissed due to the incompetence and/or overt bias of the investigators. I doubt that will happen here because the Mueller investigation is part of the D partisan witch hunt, and normal rules don't seem to apply any more in DC.
Newfie wrote:Any one watching the testimony? How’s it going?
Tanada wrote:Personally I would rather the congress did their jobs of repealing bad legislation and paying the bills that messing around with pointless time wasting political BS that does nothing except reveal just how incompetent they really are.
I haven't seen it all, but I would be disappointed if I didn't have rather low expectations to start with. Really, it's pretty clear what Trump did and that it would meet the grounds for obstruction of justice. That's always been clear. It isn't because the Republicans don't see this that they don't want to impeach Trump. Nothing Mueller can say would change this. But he could have been more strident and given some help to the effort.
But the IG report, at least, reaffirms what has become painfully clear to Americans the past two years: Comey entered the FBI chief’s job with a reputation for excellence but ran a bureau that suffered from ineptitude, political shenanigans, leaking and significant human failings, all of which sharply contrast with the morality lectures he’s become famous for frequently offering since he was fired.
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