Interviewed in the press ahead of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s July 24 testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, one of the two most partisan Democrats in Congress, 72-year-old Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), insists that 73-year-old President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice. Forget about the fact that Atty. Gen. William Barr and former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller May 17, 2017, determined March 24 that the Mueller Report did not establish evidence of obstruction of justice. Speaking to the anti-Trump media, Nadler has a welcome audience, having already charged, tried and convicted Trump of obstruction of justice. Nadler’s team of anti-Trump lawyers have cherry-picked the March 22 Final Special Counsel Report to reinterpret evidence to charge Trump with obstruction.
Showing his anti-Trump bias, Nadler claims to have all the evidence needed to convict Trump of high-crimes-and-misdemeanors. “The report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, and we have to let Muller present those facts to the American people and then see where we go from there,” Nadler told Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday.” Nadler has no facts only a twisted interpretation of the Mueller Report, something he hopes Mueller corroborates July 24. But, if you listen to Mueller, he’ll offer Nadler nothing other than what’s in the Special Counsel’s final report. When Mueller went public May 29 he was very careful to confine his brief remarks to his final report. He showed no interest in testifying before Congress, concerned that the Special Counsel’s investigation had been so politicized, it lacked any real credibility.
Nadler expects to extract testimony from Mueller that Trump obstructed justice to interfere with the Special Counsel’s investigation. “The administration must be held accountable, and no president can be above the law,” Nadler told Fox News, repeating the same platitudes in the Democrat Party’s talking points. Democrats have their pre-2020 narrative about Trump, namely, that he’s guilty of high-crimes-and-misdemeanors, obstruction of justice and racism. Nadler wants the public to believe that he’s the one that should decide Trump’s guilt or innocence. Yet when it came to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nadler had nothing to say about Hillary physically destroying 12 cell pones and erasing data on her hard drive. But to Nadler that’s nothing to look at only highly partisan interpretations of the Mueller Report. Barr and Rosenstein looked at the same report and cleared Trump.
Lapping up Nadler’s every word, the media looks to anything to get Trump on Russian collusion or obstruction of justice. Getting Mueller under oath, Nadler hopes to bolster his case against Trump, even though he was acquitted by Barr and Rosenstein. Democrats hang on Mueller’s every word when it came to saying he could not exonerate Trump with respect to Russian collusion or obstruction. Nadler wants to lead Mueller to admit that he couldn’t determine whether or not Trump committed any crimes with the respect to obstruction of justice. Republicans want to cross-examine Mueller about the origins of the Special Counsel investigation, including where the Justice Department under Rosenstein got the probable cause to appoint him Special Counsel in the first place. Republicans contend that Democrats concocted probable cause with Hillary’s old opposition research AKA “the dossier.”
Progressives in Congress led by the so-called “Quad-Squad,” including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-Mich.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), want Trump impeached. They’ve butted heads with 79-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) who says she wants the facts, especially on impeachment, carefully vetted. Reading the Mueller Report, it’s clear that Trump didn’t like the investigation, even asked some of his staff to stop it, but didn’t do anything to obstruct justice. Yet the “Quad Squad” is utterly convinced, like Nadler, that Trump committed high-rimes-and-misdemeanors. When Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) introduced an impeachment resolution July 18, his Democrat and Republican colleagues rejected it [332-95]. Pelosi expressed concern that proceeding to impeachment could backfire in 2020.
Nadler mirrors the same partisan zeal as House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who salivated at the chance to get more out of Mueller. “Most American in their busy lives haven’t had the opportunity to read that report, and its is a pretty dry prosecutorial work product. We want Bub Mueller to bring it to life . . .It’s a pretty damning set of facts,” Schiff said. Nadler and Schiff have led the impeachment charge in Congress, hoping to damage Trump politically before the 2020 election. Schiff doesn’t want Mueller to speak for himself, he wants Mueller to corroborate the Democrat narrative that Trump colluded with Russia and obstructed justice. “We hope it won’t end up being a dud,” Nadler said, exposing for all to see his partisan motive. He wants Mueller to testify not to inform the public but to advance the Democrat narrative that Trump committed high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.
