Mueller Investigation pt 6

[alfaniner]

It does bother me when Congress members ask several questions regarding involved people, and they say their names wrong. ("Rosenstine", not "Rosensteen", and "McCann" -over and over- instead of "McGann".)

 

[Belz...]

Apparently Trump is retweeting commentators on the hearings. I wonder if he's actually watching, or watching second-hand the people who will agree with him.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/AM2DM/status/1154032079354527744

"Mueller's been so built up in the press as kind of the hero of liberalism...but you have to realize he's a lifelong Republican who's being attacked by Republicans." – @MollyJongFast on why Mueller seems so uncomfortable

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1154033972839616512

Richmond: "So it's fair to say the president tried to protect himself by asking staff to falsify records relevant to an ongoing investigation?"

Mueller: "I would say that's generally the summary."

 

[Andy_Ross]

Apparently Trump is retweeting commentators on the hearings. I wonder if he's actually watching, or watching second-hand the people who will agree with him.

Only one retweet of a comment on Fox

“This has been a disaster for the Democrats and a disaster for the reputation of Robert Mueller.” Chris Wallace
@FoxNews

 

[alfaniner]

Good lord, Republicans are embarrassing.

I wish Mueller had more time to respond sometimes. It sucks that he only gets a two-three word answer

He gets all the time he needs. Most well-framed questions require only "yes" or "no". Unless of course, he does begin to expound and gets interrupted. But he's not adding much.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1154034330433282051

Richmond: "The president's attempt to get McGahn to create a false written record were related to Mr. Trump's concerns about your obstruction of justice inquiry, correct?"

Mueller: "I believe that to be true."

 

[Belz...]

Rep. Gaetz asks Mueller whether the Dossier could be misinformation. Except that a number of points in the dossier have been confirmed.

 

[smartcooky]

Matt Gaetz... another Deep State conspiracy theorists

 

[Belz...]

He gets all the time he needs. Most well-framed questions require only "yes" or "no". Unless of course, he does begin to expound and gets interrupted.

Gaetz isn't even letting him answer.

 

[plague311]

Is this guy basically bitching that Mueller charged people that committed crime?

 

[plague311]

Gaetz isn't even letting him answer.

I haven't seen many of them let him really reply. He gets a few words in and then they interrupt him. It's happening more on the GOP side than that Dem side, but still.

 

[Belz...]

I think Mueller struggled with whether he'd answer "yes" to Jeffries' question about whether Trump's specific behaviour qualified as an obstructive act. He paused a bit before throwing the usual referal to the report.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1154034770147516416

TIME CRUNCH.

So far a total of 16 members of this 42-member committee have had a chance to question Mueller.

And there is just over an hour left.

 

[alfaniner]

Is this guy basically bitching that Mueller charged people that committed crime?

Yes, that seems to be the narrative they are trying to set. In other words, "How can you investigate a person for a crime if they haven't been convicted of it??? They're innocent!!!"

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1154037545442975744

Buck questioning Mueller's analysis on Flynn matter, eg questioning whether Flynn was a pending matter, claiming that Flynn was not a witness.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1154037823776776192

57/ Buck (R) is bizarrely arguing that crimes the feds already charged (and that were pleaded to) weren't in fact crimes, for instance the crime former Trump NSA Michael Flynn was charged with and pleaded guilty to.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Yes, that seems to be the narrative they are trying to set. In other words, "How can you investigate a person for a crime if they haven't been convicted of it??? They're innocent!!!"

That's been an argument, vague and in the margins but there, for a while now. Someone just finally came out and said it directly in all its glorious absurdity.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1154039090578202626

59/ What Congressional Democrats are doing today—and very clearly—is laying out the most egregious course of obstruction of justice by a sitting president in the history of the United States.

That's inarguable—as is the fact that obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1154039559304257537

60/ The Democrats have established—with Mueller's agreement—a timeline in which the President of the United States *repeatedly* and *brazenly* attempts to shut down, via intermediaries, a federal criminal investigation of himself and his closest associates. Again—this is *clear*.

 

[carlosy]

Reps are ******* crazy, but they are good in doing so. Dems are completely lame.

Honestly, this is a mess.