Mueller and Fusion GPS

Mueller has testified. 

In spite of a new low in the world of American political theatre, where Republicans used Russian-inspired propaganda to accuse a Vietnam war hero, military volunteer, and life-long loyal Republican public servant of trying to launch a coup against the Trump Presidency, he did his job and stuck to his script, which is his report.

At one point, he was asked this...

"When you talk about the firm that produced the Steele reporting, the name of the firm that produced that was Fusion GPS. Is that correct?”

His answer was “I’m not familiar with that."

The next thing said to him was this...“It’s not a trick question.” 

To which Mueller responded as follows...“This is outside my purview.”

Right-wing pundits have stated that this is proof that Mueller did not know what was going on with the investigation because he did not even know about Fusion GPS, and that this is therefore proof that his investigation was a "witch-hunt". They also allege that he should have looked at the Steele Dossier because it alleged collusion, and his failure to do so shows his investigation is flawed as it missed looking at all that evidence.

Let's look at these idiotic claims one by one.

By saying that "THIS" is outside his purview, Mueller was signalling to the Republican scumbag who was questioning him that he knew full well what "THIS" is, otherwise how could he say that it was outside of his purview? As with all of his other testimony, he stuck rigidly to his report - to what is actually in his "purview".

Here is news for the Republican scumbag who asked this question - Fusion GPS and the Steele Dossier have NOTHING to do with Mueller's report, either in its content or in the origins behind the investigation itself. This is crystal clear from the first few pages of the report itself.    

As well, the Republican scumbag who asked these questions likely knows full well that Fusion GPS and the Steele Dossier have nothing to do with the investigation - the scumbag was just playing a role in the sad passion play that is America. 

On that, I invite readers to search the PDF version of the report in full - the terms "Fusion GPS" and "Steele" do not appear anywhere.

Again - this is political theatre at its lowest, where even resort to a propaganda script that originated with the Russians is considered fair game when it comes to trying to score political points.

Mueller is not an idiot. If he had engaged this utterly disgraceful line of questioning which was clearly designed to lead to an accusation that he led a Clinton-sparked "witch hunt" to overthrow Trump, he would have lent credence to this total bull shit. His answers were designed to cut off that line of questioning before it even started, which he did accomplish.

As also noted, he has also been accused of having conducted a limited investigation because he did not look at the Steele Dossier which includes claims of collusion.  

No one making this accusation is actually interested in getting to the truth of Russian interference in the last presidential election. Like Mueller, they know that the dossier has been widely discredited, except to the extent that anyone tied to it can be accused of being a Clinton hack - so he paid no credence to it at all, so as to not tie his investigation to it in any way shape or form so he could not be accused of being a Clinton hack.  Again - the man isn't an idiot.

Oh, and on that, those pundits who now say he should have looked at the Steele Dossier in order to conduct a full investigation are the same people who two years ago were saying the dossier was 100% bull shit.  

So which is it?  Is it total bull shit, or is it actual evidence of collusion - it can't be both.  

Do you see the utter shamelessness in this?

To score points today, the dossier is now said to be real and Mueller should have looked at it as if it contained actual evidence. That he didn't apparently suggests that he is corrupt. 

To score points yesterday, these same people claimed that it was a total lie designed to set up Trump, who won the election fair and square and who is a good if misunderstood man. 

To those esteemed pundits, I say "F&^% Y98!."

Mueller had one main message - Russia usurped the last US presidential election, and this remains a clear and present danger to American democracy. There is no question that his report shows this. 

He is wrong in this. The greatest threat to American democracy now consists in how politics is conducted in that country, where even disgraceful conspiracy theories which have their origins in the machinations of America's enemies may be resorted to in order to score political points.