{"id":11334,"date":"2018-08-14T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2018-08-14T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:00:25","slug":"the-legacies-of-robert-muellers-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-legacies-of-robert-muellers-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacies of Robert Mueller\u2019s Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">S<\/span>ome 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d and \u201call-star\u201d team.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else in his campaign\u2014and therefore end the Trump aberration.<\/p>\n<p>Press puff pieces highlighted the r\u00e9sum\u00e9s of his superstars\u2014of Lisa Page (no comment needed),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/13\/us\/politics\/peter-strzok-fired-fbi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Peter Strzok<\/a>\u00a0(less than no comment needed), Jeannie Rhee (a former attorney for the Clinton Foundation, Ben Rhodes, and for a bit Hillary Clinton), Andrew Weissman (Clinton zealot, Obama and DNC donor, and the cheerleader to Sally Yates\u2019s refusal to carry out a presidential order), Aaron Zebley (the former attorney for Clinton staffer Justin Cooper who set up the infamous Clinton home server and smashed to bits her mobile devices), and a host of other pros, who were all shortly to prove Trump-Russian \u201ccollusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/08\/13\/the-legacies-of-robert-muellers-investigations\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d and \u201call-star\u201d team. Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else [&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":[1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2WO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11050,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/swamp-things-in-the-russia-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11334,"position":0},"title":"Swamp Things in the Russia Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \"The Swamp\u201d usually refers to the vast federal bureaucratic machinery of mostly unelected top officials who exercise influence and power without worry about the appearance of conflicts of interest. They are often exempt from the consequences of the laws and regulations that affect others.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;James Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"James Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/james-comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11012,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-paradoxes-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11334,"position":1},"title":"The Paradoxes of the Mueller Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review They are numerous, and none of them are good news for President Trump\u2019s opponents. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals for allegedly conspiring to sow confusion in the 2016 presidential election. 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":10817,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-mueller-investigation-coincidence-too-many\/","url_meta":{"origin":11334,"position":2},"title":"One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/National Review \u00a0 Stacking the deck with anti-Trump staffers is proving to be a really bad idea. \u00a0 Special prosecutors, investigators, and counsels are usually a bad idea. They are admissions that constitutionally mandated institutions don\u2019t work \u2014 and can be rescued only by supposed superhuman moralists,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-at-the-crossroads\/","url_meta":{"origin":11334,"position":3},"title":"Mueller at the Crossroads","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. 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His friend and successor as FBI director, James Comey, by his own admission prompted the investigation \u2014 with the deliberate leaking of classified memos about his conversations with President Donald Trump to the press.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11805,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/clinton-projection-syndrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":11334,"position":5},"title":"Clinton Projection Syndrome","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s massive report. 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