When Mueller testified about "his" report, he was unable to remember many details about "his" report.
Some cynics thought that Robert Mueller was a mentally-failing man who had nominally been put in charge of the "Mueller investigation" to give it (undeserved) credence and authority, while the actual leader of the investigation was the extremely partisan corrupt Democrat activist Andrew Weissman, lately of MSNBC.
Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, is reportedly living in a memory care facility, raising questions about his ability to respond to a new House subpoena. The report comes as Mueller is being called to testify about the FBI's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Key Details:
Real Clear Politics reported Monday that Robert Mueller has been living in a memory care facility "for the past few years," citing unnamed sources.
Despite the report, the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena requiring Mueller to appear for a deposition on September 2 regarding the FBI's decades-old Epstein investigation.
The Committee declined to confirm or deny Mueller's reported condition, telling the Daily Caller it would engage in "good faith negotiations with all parties."
Diving Deeper:
Robert Mueller is allegedly residing in a memory care facility, according to a report published Monday by Real Clear Politics. The former FBI director and special counsel, who led the high-profile investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, has reportedly been in the facility "for the past few years," sources told investigative journalist Paul Sperry.
The report surfaced as the House Oversight Committee announced it had issued Mueller a subpoena to testify about the FBI's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Chairman James Comer is seeking answers about a long-dormant federal investigation into Epstein that occurred during the George W. Bush administration.
While the Oversight Committee confirmed the subpoena was issued, it declined to comment on Mueller's alleged condition. "The subpoenas issued are legally binding and duly authorized," a spokesperson told the Daily Caller. "As always, the Committee will engage in good faith negotiations with all parties."
The report from Real Clear Politics has raised concerns about Mueller's cognitive capacity and ability to testify. If confirmed, it would mark a dramatic turn for the once-revered lawman who served as FBI director under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and later as special counsel in one of the most politically charged investigations in recent memory.
Mueller's 2019 report famously concluded that investigators did not find sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election -- a finding that sharply contradicted years of media speculation and Democrat accusations.
It remains unclear how the Oversight Committee will proceed if Mueller is unable to participate in the deposition. No official statement has been released by Mueller or his representatives regarding the report or the subpoena.
You might think, "But the Mueller report exonerated Trump, why claim that the partisan Lizard Person Andrew Weissman was the true author?"
The report only exonerated Trump of Russian collusion, which it had to do, because there was literally zero evidence to say otherwise. Everything in Hillary Clinton's "dossier" was just the hallucination of an old, drunk conspiracy theorist.
But Weissman's report nevertheless insisted -- unethically -- that Trump "may have" committed obstruction of justice by simply refusing to answer some questions or even just by having his attorney make the argument that he didn't have to disclose some papers. They criminalized just having a counselor during a potentially-criminal investigation.
Trump did not obstruct justice just because he spoke to his lawyers before rushing to comply with baseless demands.
And he didn't obstruct justice because that charge requires materiality. If you are not forthcoming about a question that turns out to not be a material fact in any crime, you're not guilty of obstruction of justice. I thought we all learned this when Bill Clinton claimed his many lies under oath were "not material" and thus not perjury (or obstruction of justice).
And it's completely unethical to claim that the man you've been investigating, and have found no evidence establishing he committed any crimes, "may have" obstructed justice. You can't prove it, you can't charge it, but you have to give the left a bone so you stoke up suspicions about what Trump "may have" done, but which you can't prove or even charge.
It was this claim of what Trump "may have" been guilty of that permitted Andrew Weissman's many, many media allies, some of whom he would soon be soon be joining on MSNBC, to claim that the Mueller report didn't really exonerate Trump, because he "may have" been guilty of unspecified crimes asserted WITHOUT EVIDENCE. Weissman turned the left's complete loss into an contested matter so that Rachel Maddow would not feel too bad about herself.
So yeah, I think Weissman was the real writer of the report and Mueller was just a steeply mentally-declining front. Because supposedly he's "so respected."