{"id":11933,"date":"2019-08-07T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2019-08-06T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:35:42","slug":"the-dream-team-loses-to-the-nobodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-dream-team-loses-to-the-nobodies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Team Loses to the Nobodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When figurehead Robert Mueller likely allowed Andrew Weissman to form his special counsel team to investigate so-called charges of Russian collusion involving Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign and the Kremlin, Washington elites became bouncy. The high-profile legal \u201cpowerhouse\u201d lineup immediately looked like a sure-thing\u2014an elite slaughter of the yokels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they perused the r\u00e9sum\u00e9s of the New York and Washington prosecutors, and the Wilmer-Hale veterans, reporters were ecstatic that the supposedly straight-shooting Republican Mueller had turned his investigation into what the media soon boasted was a progressive \u201cdream team\u201d of \u201call-stars,\u201d a veritable \u201chunter-killer team\u201d of get-Trump professionals. One would have thought mere names and credentials win indictments, regardless of the evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subtext was that Trump had all but met his Waterloo. Indictments for conspiracy, obstruction, and worse yet inevitably would follow, until Trump either resigned in disgrace or was impeached. The media counterparts of the dream-team on MSNBC and CNN would make short work of the rubes. On air law professors and legal analysts who knew \u201cBob\u201d Mueller (the same ones who assured us that \u201cJim\u201d Comey was a \u201cstraight-shooter\u201d), after all, swore this would be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost all the all-stars were not just liberal but \u201ccorrect\u201d as well. Many were either Clinton donors; a few in the past had defended either Clinton aides or the Clinton foundation. Many also had been tagged as Department of Justice future superstars. Their tony degrees seemed designed to spell the doom of the buffoon Trump.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/08\/04\/the-dream-team-loses-to-the-nobodies\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review When figurehead Robert Mueller likely allowed Andrew Weissman to form his special counsel team to investigate so-called charges of Russian collusion involving Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign and the Kremlin, Washington elites became bouncy. The high-profile legal \u201cpowerhouse\u201d lineup immediately looked like a sure-thing\u2014an elite slaughter of the yokels. 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In teenage fashion, one moment a player in the Trump removal intrigue is deemed by the media-progressive nexus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2020 Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2020 Election","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/2020-election\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/target-trump-forever\/","url_meta":{"origin":11933,"position":5},"title":"Target Trump Forever","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Left has shown that the collusion exoneration last year by the heralded Robert Mueller investigation\u2014all 22-months, the \u201cdream team,\u201d and $34 million of it\u2014meant absolutely nothing. 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