Opinion: The Mueller testimony was a made-for-TV drama that fizzled out
The much anticipated Robert Mueller hearings that were supposed to catalyze the impeachment drive against President Trump probably brought it to an effective end.The testimony represented the final installment of a years-long over-investment in Mueller by the Democrats and the media that finally went completely bust in his laconic, halting, uncertain performance.
First, we needed to wait on Mueller’s purportedly explosive findings during the period when it was constantly said that the walls were “closing in” on the president. The report did indeed include more damning details, but when it didn’t really move the needle politically, we needed to wait on the unredacted version.
This misread the reasons for the underwhelming political effect of the report, though. Mueller didn’t establish any meaningful coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, which was the alleged underlying offense. He did find all sorts of scheming against his investigation, although the obstruction case lacks force because the underlying offense isn’t there and, at the end of the day, Mueller completed his probe with extensive White House cooperation.
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