After over a year of a so-called “independent” investigation, it is time for anyone who cares about the constitution and the rule of law to call for an end to Robert Mueller’s unbridled overreach and shut down his witch hunt.
The reason the Department of Justice should put the brakes on Muller is not primarily because Donald J. Trump is in his crosshairs but because he has placed our entire system of government in jeopardy.
“Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence,” says Mark Penn.
President Trump’s lawyer, John Down, called last week for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to end Mueller’s investigation citing the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility report on key former FBI actors, Andrea McCabe and James Comey.
The idea that the president is tired of discredited dossiers and a year’s worth of bluster minus even one indirect much less direct piece of evidence that speaks to collusion is apparently anti-American to Democrats.
Just after Down’s words appeared in The Daily Beast, Senator Mark Warner (Dem – VA) tweeted: “Every member of Congress, Republican, and Democrat, needs to speak up in defense of the Special Counsel. Now.”
Senator Chuck Schumer (Dem – NY) followed Warner with a not-so-veiled threat, “The president … must not take any steps to curtail, interfere with, or end the special counsel’s investigation or there will be severe consequences from both Democrats and Republicans.”
Senator Warner later offered a diatribe from the floor of the Senate in which he warned of “troubling signs” that President Donald Trump might fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Robert Mueller should be fired so why are Democrats solely focused on that possibility rather than what the investigation itself has proved? And why has Trump been willing to speak so bluntly about the investigation while at the same time not showing a single move toward firing Mueller?
The reason Trump has held off on firing Mueller is two-fold: public perception and because Mueller is shooting blanks. He has found nothing that leads back to Trump.
Mueller’s tale began with a story from Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, about an undocumented bar conversation with George Papadopoulos, a low-level unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. The narrative is suspect from the beginning because of unanswered questions. How did the FBI know they should talk to Downer, a $25 million contributor to the Clinton Foundation?
Mueller’s next “prized” discovery was the now infamous dossier authored by Christopher Steele. Downer’s contribution to the Clinton Foundation is pure as the driven snow compared to Steel’s unverified dossier, that passed from the press to the FBI and back so it appeared to come from multiple sources. And all paid for Clinton.
Even a sting operation with an FBI spy in the Trump campaign failed to produce a smoking gun. But instead of shutting down his investigation or producing a report before the midterm elections, Mueller expanded his investigation to Israel and its connections with the President.
But Mueller is a Republican, some protest. Yes, but Mueller is also the perfect example of the alligators in the swamp. First appointed by Bush and then Obama, his allegiance is to maintaining power for his cronies of the Deep State, not truth.
Mueller has 16 prosecutors working for him – all but two of them are registered Democrats and one is even a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation – but he has produced nothing that has given him the ability to get the ear of one federal judge to convene a grand jury.
Rather than an impartial investigation, Mueller’s investigation has become a partisan inquisition that threatens all those who currently hold or aspire to public office.
Mueller has not attempted to show why he would be justified in compelling the President to appear before a grand jury. The reason is simple – to convene a grand jury or force an interview with the President, Mueller would have to convince a judge that he has credible evidence of a crime.
There is only one reason Democrats are so intent on treating criticism of Mueller as a threat to democracy – impeachment is never far from their minds and they can use his fodder to build a fire if they retake the House or Senate.
~ American Liberty Report
