{"id":11167,"date":"2018-04-26T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11167"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:27:47","slug":"the-double-standards-of-the-mueller-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-double-standards-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Double Standards of the Mueller Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">The more Mueller searches for hypothetical lawbreaking, the more he ignores the actual lawbreakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck.<\/p>\n<p>In one direction, Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign team might have done wrong in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/04\/mueller-investigation-double-standard-ignores-actual-lawbreakers\/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=3e981c9355-HDR&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-3e981c9355-73437989\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The more Mueller searches for hypothetical lawbreaking, the more he ignores the actual lawbreakers. The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck. In one direction, Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign team might have done wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2U7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11798,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-investigation-was-driven-by-pious-hypocrisy\/","url_meta":{"origin":11167,"position":0},"title":"Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. 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The chance of extraditing any of the accused from Vladimir\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12082,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/are-thought-crimes-impeachable\/","url_meta":{"origin":11167,"position":3},"title":"Are Thought Crimes Impeachable?","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review During special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation, his legal \u201cdream team\u201d tried to make a secondary case that Donald Trump also obstructed efforts to prove Trump-Russian \u201ccollusion.\u201d Trump was said to have advised his lawyers and other subordinates, past and present, not to cooperate fully\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11373,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-truth-will-set-us-all-free\/","url_meta":{"origin":11167,"position":4},"title":"The Truth Will Set Us All Free","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation was star-crossed from the start. 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