{"id":11798,"date":"2019-04-25T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T23:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11798"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:05:44","slug":"mueller-investigation-was-driven-by-pious-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-investigation-was-driven-by-pious-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the president. It would have been hard in any case to find that Trump obstructed Mueller\u2019s investigation of an alleged crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, there was never a crime of collusion. Mueller early on in his endeavors must have realized that truth, but he pressed ahead anyway. It is almost impossible to prove obstruction of nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two, Trump cooperated with the investigation. He waived executive privilege. He turned over more than 1 million pages of administrative documents. He allowed then-White House counsel Don McGahn to submit to over 30 hours of questioning by Mueller\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three, anyone targeted by a massive investigation who knows he is innocent of an alleged crime is bound to become frustrated over a seemingly never-ending inquisition.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/04\/24\/mueller-investigation-was-driven-by-pious-hypocrisy\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the president. It would have been [&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-34i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12082,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/are-thought-crimes-impeachable\/","url_meta":{"origin":11798,"position":0},"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":11817,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-face-a-bleak-post-mueller-landscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":11798,"position":1},"title":"Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr\u2019s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. 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She concluded of the report\u2019s assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump\u2019s words and actions that \u201cany other person engaged in those acts would certainly have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hillary Clinton&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hillary Clinton","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/hillary-clinton\/"},"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":11798,"position":3},"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":11834,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/he-did-it-not-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":11798,"position":4},"title":"He Did It, Not Me!","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There is something Kafkaesque about the current round of investigating possible FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, and National Security Council wrongdoing during the 2016 election, Trump transition, and early presidency. Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been permitted to range well beyond his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"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":11798,"position":5},"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. 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