Robert Mueller Testifies Before Two House Committees

It Was All on TV

Robert Mueller has testified before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, and we now know that he agrees that his investigation was not a witch hunt, that the Russian interference in our 2016 election was real, not a hoax and continues today and that the Republican 2016 campaign was somewhat receptive to that interference, and those involved in it readily lied about it.   He also reiterated his declaration that the Report did not exonerate the President from claims that he attempted to obstruct the investigation.

The Democrats applauded.  The Republicans tried to discredit the investigation.  The President responded with some more lies.  Mueller, in the final analysis, acted as an investigator and not as a prosecutor, except in some blatant cases not involving the sitting President, immune from indictment until he is out of office.  While still in office, that task was left to unnamed others by Mueller.

 

Trump allies in the Department of Justice and the Senate want it all to disappear and be done with. The Democrats don’t and are divided over whether (1) to pass a bill of impeachment which will pile up more evidence against the President but ultimately be voted down in the Senate, thereby conceivably helping Trump, or (2) be satisfied to just let the damning evidence continue to pile up against the President until Election Day.  Right now that decision is in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Hannity

Will an American public, which doesn’t know the meaning of words like “exculpatory” and the legal nuances with which the Mueller Report and Mueller’s testimony was filled understand what is going on in the face of continued lies from the President and his supporters on Fox News and in the Senate? 
 
 (Foxwatch:  Viewers getting their news from Fox are under the impression that the hearings amounted to a total vindication of the President's position.  Sean Hannnity has finally surpassed Joseph Goebbels.)

Register Voters!  

For those of you who want to get rid of our incompetent, racist, greedy, dangerous and possibly insane President, my suggestion remains a recommendation to become politically active, especially in the area of  voter registration.  That is the only way to beat him and the forces of ignorance and bigotry upon which he depends for support.

Jack Lippman