Both Democrats And Republicans Claim Victory After Mueller Testimony

Both Republicans and Democrats are claiming that they won the day with Mueller’s testimony, with both sides claiming that he proved their points. The truth is somewhere in the middle, with Mueller confirming Democrats’ claims about Trump and Republicans attempting to trip him up with conspiracy theories. The question that remains is which side is the public going to take? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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All right, so obviously we've got to talk about Robert Mueller's testimony yesterday and before we get into, you know the whole thing of optics and who won and who lost. Let's strip it down to some bare bones facts here. Robert Mueller did say as the report says that he believes that people associated with Donald Trump, the campaign, the administration, whoever it is, they absolutely in his opinion, deleted messages, deleted communications, deleted electronic communications of all kinds and that hindered their investigation. Now again, that is something we already knew. Mueller was also very clear to say that this report did not exonerate Donald Trump at all. He also told us that Donald Trump could absolutely be prosecuted once he leaves office, assuming that he's voted out in 2020 then you can prosecute him for the obstruction of justice. No problem. All of those things were things that we knew and that's the problem with the overall testimony.

Yesterday, Robert Mueller told us back when he gave his little press conference that if I am called to testify, I am only going to talk about things in the report. I am not going to go beyond that. I am not going to speculate. I'm only going to say what's actually in that report. So there's really no reason to call me in to testify. Well they did it anyway. They thought it would be good and maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. We'll get to that in a moment. But also a lot of people calling Robert Mueller out for not wanting to read from the report, which admitted the is very odd. However, uh, there was an announcement before he ever testified that he refused to read anything from the report. Uh, the law makers were actually told that. So why they continued to ask him to read from it, uh, is confusing cause they knew he wouldn't do that.

But also his decision to not read from the report is equally as confusing. Uh, there were 206 times during his testimony where he flat out said, you know, either read the report or I'm not going to answer that 206 times where he just straight up said, I'm not going to answer that question. So, not a very productive testimony. But here's the thing. Now let's get into the optics of the whole thing. Cause that's what everybody's talking about. Um, immediately following Dura, the hearing, and in fact, sometimes during the hearing, you had Republicans going out there saying, we won. Robert Mueller proved our point. You had Democrats out there saying, we won. Robert Mueller proved our point. And those are two impossibilities. Both sides obviously cannot win this in the matter of did Donald Trump, uh, probably break the law. Yeah. Mueller was, uh, giving the Democrats of victory there on the point of can we make you look like an incompetent fool republicans that hell yeah, they did.

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