Admitting that he has no agreement with 74-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller, House Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y), warned Mueller that if he doesn’t respond soon, he could be subpoenaed. If ;he doesn’t respond to the subpoena, Mueller could face a Contempt of Congress citation, much like Atty, Gen. William Barr who received his Contempt of Congress May 8. Nadler flexed his oversight muscle demanding that Barr violate Department of Justice rules related to protecting the privacy of grand juries, not to mention the privacy of individuals not charged in the 22-month probe into Russian meddling and alleged collusion by 74-year-old President Donald Trump Nadler wants to put Mueller under oath and ask him why he didn’t charge Trump with collusion and obstruction of justice. Nadler, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) don’t accept Mueller’s report.
Threatening to subpoena Mueller, Nadler says he wants find out how the Special Counsel decided not to charge Trump with collusion and obstruction of justice. Schiff has said many times he has plenty of evidence of collusion and obstruction of justice. But unlike Mueller and the DOJ, House committees are driven by politics, not the rule of law. Nadler, Schiff and Cummings now ask the American public to ignore Mueller’s team of 23 professional prosecutors and let partisan hacks determine Trump’s guilt-or-innocence. Mueller finds himself caught between a rock-and-a-hard place, letting his 22-month-long probe speak for itself or letting partisan Democrats charge, try and convict Trump for purely partisan purposes. Nadler, Schiff and Cummings expect the public to believe their partisan dog-and-pony show, rather than trust Mueller’s nonpartisan prosecutors, only looking at the facts. House Democrats are putting Trump; in double-jeopardy.
House Democrats don’t accept Mueller’s findings because they clear Trump of collusion and obstruction of justice. Instead of accepting Mueller’s findings, Nadler, Schiff and Cummings have weaponized Congressional committees for the sole purpose of reinterpreting Mueller’s finding to advance as Democrat political agenda. Nadler hopes to get Mueller into “what ifs” game, getting him to admit Trump would have been charged with obstruction if he were not president. You can guarantee that Nadler won’t ask Mueller about former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who erased electronic data on her private server and physically destroyed 13 cell phones. But to Nadler, Schiff and Cummings Trump was the one who committed obstruction of justice. Nadler wants Mueller to help his committee to stretch the definition of obstruction, even after his final report cleared Trump. Democrats want nothing less than to retry Trump in the House.
Citing Atty. Gen. William Barr for Contempt of Congress, Nadler, Schiff and Cummings want to create PR nightmare for Trump heading into the 2020 election. If Barr precludes Mueller from testifying, Democrats will have their cover-up strategy heading into 2020. Yet if you fairly interpret Mueller’s findings, Trump can’t logically engage in obstruction of justice. Without an underlying crime, there’s nothing Trump could cover-up. Democrats look to redefine obstruction of justice to mean anything seen as potentially interfering with the Special Counsel’s investigation, including, for instance, Trump refusing to testify. When Mueller said in his final report that Trump tried to get his former White House counsel Don McGahan to tell former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller, that did not meet the definition of obstruction. Yet Trump, as commander-in-chief, had the right to change to personnel in the executive branch.
Mueller’s testimony is of no consequence to Trump’s guilt-or-innocence of Russian collusion or obstruction of justice. Mueller[s report speaks for itself and, more importantly, Barr’s decision to neither charge Trump with collusion nor obstruction. Mueller’s testimony is superseded by his 440-oage final report that gives all the evidence why his team of 23 prosecutors cleared the president on both counts. With a recent Gallup Poll showing that Trump’s approval ratings hit 46%, a record high for Gallup, Democrats look for anything possible to discredit Trump before the 2020 election. Whether Mueller or any other person testifies or not, it doesn’t change Mueller’s Report. House Democrats can’t deny Mueller’s findings, regardless of attempts to retry Trump in the House. Mueller’s testimony changes nothing when it comes to the outcome of a two-year investigation. Insisting on re-litigating Mueller’s two-year probe will backfire on Democrats.
Giving Nadler no commitment to testify, Mueller finds himself in a now-win situation, trying to clarify his findings, while, at the same time, letting Democrats use him to advance their political agenda. Whether Mueller testifies in the House Judiciary or not, Nadler should not slap the venerable former FBI Director with a contempt citation. Nadler doesn’t have to force Mueller to testify publicly, whether by subpoena or any other means. Nadler wants Mueller to testify in open court for its PR value to hurt Trump and promote a Democrat victory in 2020. Nadler, Schiff and Cummings have lost sight of issues most important to American voters. If Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz finds that the government spied, without cause, on the Trump campaign, voters could pay back Democrats for beating a dead horse about Trump’s alleged Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, without dealing with substantive issues.
