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KERNS: Did Mueller Testify On A Report He Never Read?
July 24th, 2019
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For the better part of three years, Democrats on Capitol Hill have insisted that there was only one person who was able to get to the bottom of potential Russian collusion: Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
However, in his testimony to Congress, the man they crowned king cast more doubt on the Russian collusion theory than any other figure since the fairy tale began just a few days after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Mueller appeared confused, dejected, and unfamiliar with the very report bearing his name. In fact, he seemed so disconnected from the material that he couldn’t have possibly written it himself.
While it is not uncommon for staff to prepare a first draft of a report, and while 438 pages is a lot to recall, it is clear that Mueller did not even possess a baseline command of the material with which he claimed to have spent the last two years.
His testimony revealed that he did not conduct most of the witness interviews himself — leaving those duties instead to his team of attorneys. When asked about key witness interviews, he had to refer to the report to find out what the witnesses had actually said.