Amazing that so many focus on style and not on substance.
I see commentators noting that Mueller’s responses were concise, even terse. Well duh, he had already made it clear that he didn’t want to be there and that he wanted to limit his comments to only what is in his report (I have high regard for Mueller and his lifetime of service, you can’t prepare a 446-page document and not expect some follow-up questions or requests for clarification).
Then I see commentators saying he looked old (hello, he turns 75 in less than two weeks) or that he did not have the pizzazz of a breakout sound bite.
Yes, he was terse. But what those one-word responses did do is confirm the enormity of Trump’s wrongdoing, on a scale that absolutely would have been prosecuted if not for questionable Nixon-era Department of Justice rules that Mueller, as a DOJ employee, was obligated to comply with.
But what Mueller — the points that real news has been reporting and Faux “News” [FOX FAKE NEWS] has not — confirmed was absolutely damning.
Repeatedly, Democrats read “testimony” from the report that was clearly inculpatory, and Mueller confirmed with his one-word responses: “Yes”; “True”; “right”; “correct”; “Agreed”; “That is generally true.”
And while those that have read all or significant portions of the report did not learn much that was not already known, those who only had heard from Faux “News” that Mueller completely exonerated Trump got some eye-popping news. When former Republican Justin Amash became the only one of his former party to call for an impeachment inquiry to begin, he explained his reasons, citing material from the Mueller report, and one of his constituents said she was surprised because she had never heard that there was anything negative about Trump in the report.
For THAT constituency, the hearing was very informative.
Amazing that so many focus on style and not on substance.
I see commentators noting that Mueller’s responses were concise, even terse. Well duh, he had already made it clear that he didn’t want to be there and that he wanted to limit his comments to only what is in his report (I have high regard for Mueller and his lifetime of service, you can’t prepare a 446-page document and not expect some follow-up questions or requests for clarification).
Then I see commentators saying he looked old (hello, he turns 75 in less than two weeks) or that he did not have the pizzazz of a breakout sound bite.
Yes, he was terse. But what those one-word responses did do is confirm the enormity of Trump’s wrongdoing, on a scale that absolutely would have been prosecuted if not for questionable Nixon-era Department of Justice rules that Mueller, as a DOJ employee, was obligated to comply with.
But what Mueller — the points that real news has been reporting and Faux “News” [FOX FAKE NEWS] has not — confirmed was absolutely damning.
Repeatedly, Democrats read “testimony” from the report that was clearly inculpatory, and Mueller confirmed with his one-word responses: “Yes”; “True”; “right”; “correct”; “Agreed”; “That is generally true.”
And while those that have read all or significant portions of the report did not learn much that was not already known, those who only had heard from Faux “News” that Mueller completely exonerated Trump got some eye-popping news. When former Republican Justin Amash became the only one of his former party to call for an impeachment inquiry to begin, he explained his reasons, citing material from the Mueller report, and one of his constituents said she was surprised because she had never heard that there was anything negative about Trump in the report.
For THAT constituency, the hearing was very informative.