Rep. Elijah Cummings: 'I'm Begging The American People To Pay Attention'
Robert Mueller has spoken.
In his own tepid, cautious, institutional style, the former Special Counsel has testified before two House committees completely within the four corners of his report and left no room for argument on the following:
- Russia interfered in our election, one of "the most serious threats" against democracy in his eyes.
- The Trump campaign benefited from this interference, although the amount of lies and obfuscation during the investigation from various parties made it impossible for Mueller to conclusively determine if Trump was a willing accomplice or an unwitting tool of the Russians.
- All along the investigation, Donald Trump made various moves to slow down or kill the investigation (aka "obstructing justice") into Russia interfering in our election, ostensibly because he felt it threatened his own position, but because of the OLC memo saying that presidents cannot be indicted, Mueller chose not to go further than to document ten different events that may be pursued for further indictable charges.
There are other takeaways that anyone with critical thinking skills could come away with (like how the Republicans have ZERO interest in preventing Russia from interfering in our elections again and Louis Gohmert is the dumbest person in Congress), but let's stick with Mueller's testimony.