The Mueller Squirrel Cage
By Victor Davis Hanson
January 22, 2019 6:30 AM
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The Mueller Squirrel Cage
By Victor Davis Hanson
January 22, 2019 6:30 AM
Robert Mueller on Captiol Hill in 2013 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
Round and round the investigation goes. Where it stops…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently indicted yet another peripheral character in his Trump probe, Russian attorney Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, for alleged money laundering in a matter quite separate from Trump.
Like almost all of Mueller’s indictments of the past 20 months, the charges against Veselnitskaya had nothing to do with his original mandate of finding any possible Trump–Russia collusion. No matter; within minutes, Veselnitskaya’s name was injected into the media cycle as if the fact that she was Russian and connected to the name Mueller were de facto proof that Trump was guilty of something — if not collusion, something worse.
If Mueller was not a special counsel, and if he was not looking for anyone deemed useful to flip to find dirt on Donald Trump, then Veselnitskaya would have been just another daily Washington foreign influence-peddler being courted with impunity by her American influence-peddling and often equally suspect counterparts.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/mueller-investigation-turns-law-upside-down/
