It may be that Robert Mueller being — to be polite — a bit past it accounts for his surprisingly befuddled demeanor and seeming unfamiliarity with his own report at Wednesday's hearings. The imputation that Mueller does little or none of his own writing — many credibly believe Andrew Weissman and/or his cohorts are the true authors of the report — may also be an explanation for this behavior. On multiple occasions when questioned about his own text Mueller had a blank expression or looked over to his last-minute sidekick Aaron Zebley for answers that should have been obvious. (Zebley's presence was itself a sign of nervous desperation.)

I have another suggestion for something else that further explains the former special counsel's behavior, a particularly precipitous decline from when we have last seen him, from competent to doddering.

He has a guilty conscience.

(Dana suggests here that he could have been joining Hillary in copious draughts of Chardonnay, but that's just my personal theory. His performance today suggests that he was into something much more powerful.)

He should. And not just because Peter Strzok texted to his paramour what feels like decades ago that there was "no there there." Anyone with an IQ in the proverbial triple digits has known that for a long time. (How distant it seems, months, years, that Dianne Feinstein was asked about the collusion/conspiracy— pick one — and admitted there was none.)

Mueller, unless he was living on Pluto, knew this. And somewhere, deep down, a part of him, an increasingly significant part, I suspect, must have realized what he was doing was wrong. (Besides his demeanor, this may also explain why he gave up on interviewing Trump.)

This guilty conscience was made manifest in the many questions he claimed he could not or would not answer on the subject of the predicate for his investigation. As the world knows, more and more it is becoming clear that the entire Russia probe was a put-up job. Mueller's awkward answers and body-language responding to the questions about why Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese "professor" of dubious alliances, was not prosecuted for his multiple lies when so many others were was particularly telling.

Mueller was correct in asserting his investigation wasn't a "witch hunt." It was far worse. It was part of a treasonous and/or seditious (depending on your definitions) attempt to prevent a man from winning the presidency and then, once he had done so, to sabotage and unseat him.

Uh-huh!

Oh, dear readers, there's great stuff here! One does not bypass a Roger L. Simon article lightly -- the man is always Required Reading, Class A! And it's found here https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/does-a-guilty-conscience-explain-muellers-fumbling-testimony/  so you really should go to it for all the goodies!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 25, 2019 07:38 AM (RRum6)

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