OK it is a click-bait title but: WHO NEEDS A PRESIDENT?…OR A CONGRESS?…OR A CONSTITUTION?…FOR THAT MATTER, A GOD? THE WORLD HAS ROBERT MUELLER:
“A Robert Mueller word association game would go something like this: integrity, honor, respect, order, discipline, honesty, fairness.”
That’s how Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel describes the universally high regard for the newly named Special Counsel.
Mueller’s widely seen as “the man” who will bring down the presidency of Donald Trump, to the great satisfaction of Democrats and Republican Establishment politicians nationwide, and to the relief of most of the other cowardly Republican politicians who see Mueller taking the burden from their tiny, narrow shoulders of having to either defend their party’s leader or join the mob at the risk of alienating their own voters who elected Trump.
But Ms. Strassel added a note to her Mueller “word-association game”…he’s a longtime colleague of James Comey…”; Mueller and Comey “have worked together, socialized together, and once threatened to resign together.”
Strassel writes that Comey “treated Mueller as a close friend and almost mentor.”
She further recalls that “It was Mueller as FBI head who was with Mr. Comey, then deputy attorney general, during the infamous 2004 showdown with the Bush administration over NSA spying.” (That alone, it seems to us, would make him a ‘hero’ to the left; it launched Comey’s once universal fame and adoration.)
Strassel summarizes her piece with the highly pertinent question: “…can he (Mueller) be objective toward Comey?”
We would add further a question: this one about why Rod Rosenstein, knowing of the close association and friendship between Mueller and Comey, would name Mueller to the job which is clearly hoped by the Washington establishment to be the means to destroy the Trump presidency?
Was Rosenstein overcome by the awesomeness of Mueller’s virtuous characteristics…or was there another reason?
(There’s a wide variety of interesting, seemingly a bit contradictory, but often curious elements in Mr. Rosenstein’s background: ie. he was one of the 48 federal prosecutors whose resignations were demanded by AG Sessions…which Trump overruled. Rosenstein was named US Attorney for the District of Maryland by GW Bush; he remained in that position for the entire Obama presidency.)
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DEMOCRATS ARE HAVING A HARD TIME CONTAINING THEIR JOY AND ENTHUSIASM FOR ROBERT MUELLER AND THE “FREE REIN” HE WILL ENJOY, AND NO DOUBT FULLY EXPLOIT, TO INVESTIGATE TRUMP…BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE OBAMA-PUTIN COLLUSION AND THE HILLARY CRIMINALITY.
“Mueller’s a pro,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said Friday.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said the investigation will include questions regarding possible “misconduct” or “interference.” He said Rosenstein made clear that Mueller would have the freedom take the probe wherever he needs.
“There were questions well outside the Russian scope in there,” Issa said.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Mueller would have “complete discretion to take the investigation” where it needs to go.