Calling Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation biased, 79-year-old Harvard Law Professor emeritus Alan Dershowits, told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the probe into Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion should end. Over a year into the investigation, Mueller hasn’t found criminal evidence of collusion on part of the campaign of President Donald Trump. While the Democrat-friendly media would like to convict Trump in the court of public opinion, Desrshowitz believes Mueller’s close friendship with former FBI Director James Comey makes the investigation impossibly biased. Beyond the friendship between Comey and Mueller, Dershowitz isn’t clear that criminal statutes forbid President Donald Trump or his campaign associates for soliciting the advise of foreign governments. Dershowitz recommends an impartial independent commission, not a Special Counsel.
What Dershowitz doesn’t get is that a so-called impartial independent commission could never be independent or impartial. When you consider nonpartisan attempts in the House and Senate to investigate Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 election, the House and Senate committees fell flat on their face with partisan bickering. There’s zero evidence that any impartial or independent commission could do anything different than what happened in the House and Senate. Partisan Democrats, especially Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), whose partisan zealotry broke the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation, want Mueller’s probe to go ahead. Schiff was so focused on beating Trump in the Midterm elections, he couldn’t evaluate anything objectively when it came to an investigation. Schiff used his position on the committee to attack Trump whenever possible.
Schiff believes there’s plenty of evidence for the Special Counsel to convict Trump or his associates of collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. Yet Dershowitz points out that even if Trump or his campaign buddies sought Russian or foreign help go after his rival former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, there’s no law or criminal statute in place in campaign finance law or elsewhere to charge any Trump officials. Democrats often cite Mueller’s indictment of former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort as proof of Russian collusion. Yet Dershowitz points out that Manfort’s alleged misconduct happened some 12 years before the 2016 campaign. Raiding Manafort’s Washington condo and charging him with conspiracy-and-money laudering goes beyond the Special Counsel’s mandate. Other indictments, like former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, involve perjury—not collusion.
Dershowitz thinks appointing a Special Counsel was a mistake because the government lacks laws or statutes expressly forbidding presidential candidates from consulting with foreign governments or entities. Apart from that, Dershowitz thinks Mueller’s preexisting friendship with former FBI Director James Comey creates insurmountable conflicts of interest. “We should have had a massive investigation and then we should have change the laws about what we can do and what we can’t do,” Dershowitz told Stephanopoulos. But Dershowitz knows that Congress already conducted “massive” investigations to know avail because of partisan rankering. “We need to look forward and stop expanding the criminal law to fit people that we’ve targeted,” calling for an end to Mueller’s investigation. Democrats want Mueller’s probe to hurt Republicans before the Midterm elections.
Dershowitz raises some good points about Muellers lack of impartiality going after Trump campaign officials. Recent revelations about a possible FBI informant planted in the Trump campaign raise serious doubts about former President Barack Obama’s involvement in wiretapping or investigating Trump. Comey took Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA “the dossier,z” way too seriously, especially going to the Foreign Intelligence Court Act [FISA] to seek warrants against Trump campaign officials. Comey and Mueller knew there were active cells in the FBI that opposes Trump’s candidacy, something so inappropriate for a law enforcement agency its almost criminal. Yet with all the revelations about egregious bias, the Special Counsel’s investigation goes ahead with Democrats’ blessings. No one in the Democratic Party wants Mueller’s investigation to end.
Dershowitz made good point about Mueller’s lack of impartiality. Where Alan goes awry is that Congress has already tried a “massive” investigation into Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 campaign. Wrangling on any committee prohibits any investigation from deteriorating into a partisan food fight. ”The problem is we don’t even know what the law is,” said Derhowitz, saying there’s noting on the books that prohibits any campaign from seeking dirt from foreign governments, individuals or entities. Mueller knows that Hillary’s paid opposition research against Trump relied on a former British MI6 agents with contacts in the Kremlin. Mueller’s investigation needs to end because it hasn’t proved Russian meddling or Trump collusion in the 2016 campaign. Mueller’s probe harms U.S. national security, doing nothing other than helping Democrats in November.
