Mueller Time!

I suppose someone should get fired up to watch this.

So, what is your favorite Frequently Unasked Question? I want to know whether Mueller formed an opinion as to who Joseph Misfud actually worked for. (Mueller's positions on 'who/whom' and sentence-ending prepositions can be part of his answer.) The Maltese Phantom denied being an MI6 "agent", but that is different from denying he was an asset. Since you ask, I think he is far more likely to have Western intelligence connections than Russian ones.

Margot Cleveland has more on our mystery man who might one day be re-dubbed the Maltese Canary.

OK, WOW! Rep. James Jordan scored more than MJ ever did with his Mifsud-centric questioning of Mueller. Do watch the full five minute video of a tired, ready-to-retire bureaucrat chased by a young and hungry politico.

Comments

[peter]

First? How is this possible?

[henry]

Mueller playing a Clinton depends on the meaning of "synonymous"

[Captain Hate]

Mueller is tragic like Beria was tragic.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 24, 2019 08:57 AM (v4v6L)

[henry]

I'm done. I can't take any more of this tripe.

[Tom Bowler]

Fave question: What did Robert Mueller know, and when did he know it!?

Do I get extra credit for originality?

[henry]

Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC

Wow.

Robert Mueller changing the job of a prosecutor from proving someone ‘Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt’ to ‘Not being able to exonerate someone accused of a crime.’

Dangerous and ridiculous.

[Captain Hate]

It's a plum assignment, they said.

Let the staff do all the work and you take all the credit, they said.

Be the hero and take out and illegitimate president, they said.

End your career with a glorious chapter in the history books, they said.

Here I am, the last place on earth I want to be. Miserable and scared. All I want to do is go home and gum some applesauce while watching the bird feeder in the backyard.

Fuck you, democrats.
Posted by: Bob Mueller at July 24, 2019 08:59 AM (COzlW)

[henry]

nice one TM:

Tom Maguire @Tom_Maguire
now

Boris Johnson is Bertie Wooster? If Jeeves is with him, who will stand against him?
(Hugh Grant gets a nod as well. OK, so do gorillas).

[Narciso79]

Carrying over from the other thread, Mueller didnt expect a channel, they thought their word was gospel, every once in a while you have one enterprising atty likr our friend clarice, who challenges the judgement from on high, Sydney Powell In Arthur Anderson and the fellow Concord hired who was a veteran of the southern district of Florida (did he know about the Weinstein deal) and nee york

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This will harm the Dems in the end. Absolutely nothing new will come of it.
Dems will have their self destructive biases confirmed and get some more MSM hysteria.
Normal people including many Independents will just grow sicker of their obsession.
That obsession is about as popular as their take on socialism, immigration, jihad, climate change and girls compelled to wax tranny nuts.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I know people like pirate guy for his criticism of some Dems but he, like pretty much the entire GOP, seems stuck on "cross the aisle" stupid that entails slowly strangling us rather than slitting our throats;
Crenshaw Introduces Bipartisan Carbon Capture Legislation

[Narciso79]

Um tm mifsud wasnt exclusive to the firm he also worked for Saudi and Italian Tunisian pakistani intel

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Iggy, he's shown some recent disturbing signs of succumbing to the Uniparty sirens.

[MissMarple2]

Well, phooey. Now Kroger's web site is goofed up and cannot find store locations, so I cannot place my order!

I will be flat-out PO'd if I have to go do all of this shopping in person!

[MissMarple2]

Ignatz,

Agree with you and I see Captain Hate does as well.

I had better see some spine-stiffening a la Lindsey Graham or that eyepatch isn't going to cut any ice with me.

[Rocco]

I thought Collins had Bobby dazed and confused.

Jane, glad you're doing well.

[henry]

Sean Davis
‏Verified account @seanmdav

Mueller just said his deputy, who was the personal attorney for the Hillary Clinton aide who smashed her Blackberries, was in charge of "day-to-day oversight" of Mueller's investigation. What exactly was Mueller doing?

[Captain Hate]

The Horde is loving this.

Fort Marcy Park, Bobby; this nightmare will all be over.

[Narciso79]

Reminds me of that bull rerun they aired where hiz mentor proved seriously out of his depth.

[Captain Hate]

That was a good episode but he nailed the finish.

[Narciso79]

If you played this like a dark comedy you would have leslie Nielsen as mueller.

[Captain Hate]

Mueller always has been a disgrace. What wasn't so well known was that he was the consummate Deep State puppet/front man who looked the part and could read prepared remarks and appear to be a stellar G-man without pushback. Today the public sees him as the corrupt fraud he always has been. The senile stuttering-fuck act is a fraud.

This is your DOJ/FBI, folks. Burn it all down and sow the ground with salt.

CNN and MSNBC probably will cut the live feed of this continues.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 24, 2019 09:31 AM (S7sC7)

[henry]

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
1m

Graham says he will call Papadopoulos to testify thehill.com/policy/nationa…

https://twitter.com/VickiMcKenna/status/1154022418261790720

[Threadkiller]

Turned this on a moment ago. Mueller's trick with the republicans seems to be eating the clock up by doddering.

Hank Johnson is up. CBS managed to find the specific quotd that Hank was referring to and put it on screen for us to read along.

I guess CBS was at the Dem dress rehearsal.

[Captain Hate]

Sheila Jackass Lee and Hank Johnson don't exactly provide A Team levels of intellectual fire power.

[henry]

Madison people.

Vicki McKenna @VickiMcKenna
now

#NotSatire: WI Senator Tammy Baldwin's Equality Act would force female waxers to wax male genitalia against their will washex.am/2SAfFH7

[MissMarple2]

I TOLD you guys Jim Jordan eviscerated this worthless suit 6 years ago!

I am SO glad that the media all got themselves hyped up and gave coverage! HA!

[Narciso79]

Now hank 'tip over Guam' Johnson is up,

[Captain Hate]

It's astonishing. Mueller can answer Dem questions before the interrogator even finishes the questions, but looks like Ernest P. Worrell in a quantum mechanics class for Republican questions.
Posted by: pep at July 24, 2019 09:37 AM (T6t7i)

[Captain Hate]

Morning Joe on Twitter:

"Do the Republicans really think that yelling at a highly decorated Marine war hero and the FBI Director who guided us through the aftermath is good politics? Their screaming is offensive."

So, in other words, Mueller's fucked.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 24, 2019 09:38 AM (YcLo4)

[henry]

Hmmm... didn't Trump tweet the other way on this one?

Brian Cates @drawandstrike
now

And Mueller now clearly says to Repl Gohmert he wasn't at that meeting with Trump the day before he was appointed as Special Counsel as a candidate for the FBI Director job.

[Captain Hate]

I'm not watching Muellertime - can anyone sum up.what's goung on?

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Have you ever been to a nursing home at dinner time?
Posted by: SH at July 24, 2019 09:39 AM (VkOIy)

James Stockdale 1992

[Narciso79]

Right just like he forgot the two men he let rot in prison, mind you like Sam shepherds one armed man, Barbosa did die in prison for another offenze

[Narciso79]

Deutsch is the Ricket surgeon that came before debbie doofus,

[hrtshpdbox]

henry, I hope he can't weasel out of that statement later, pretending he didn't understand the question or something. Who was in that meeting - Trump, Comey & Mueller? What about Rosie, was he there?

[henry]

hrt, Rosie (we are told), and per Trump's tweet Pence was there.

[Threadkiller]

Cates is completely wrong on what Mueller said. Mueller told Gohmert that he was there to advise the President about the director position.

[MissMarple2]

David Axelrod‏Verified account @davidaxelrod · 32m32 minutes ago

This is delicate to say, but Mueller, whom I deeply respect, has not publicly testified before Congress in at least six years. And he does not appear as sharp as he was then.
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HAHAHAHAHA!

I think we should have a pool for when the networks cut out.

[henry]

Thanks TK. That is what I assumed would be Trump's reason for seeing him, but if Trump says Mueller was seeking the job? Maybe Mueller did make a play for it.

[henry]

From the drunkblog:

JD in the comments: "Stephen, there will be talk that Mueller was not up to task and the investigation was therefore incomplete. A new investigation will be called for."

Hmm...

[Narciso79]

Well he wasnt running it in the first place, which twit Is this now.

[Narciso79]

Ah Karen bass what swalwell wasnt available

[Threadkiller]

Once again CBS is quick to post the specific quotes from the report while the Dem is questioning Mueller.

Synchronized.

[henry]

When you've lost WSJ:

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ
14s

From @WSJopinion: There’s nothing like a celebrity guest to boost a flagging TV show, and House Democrats are hoping Robert Mueller’s congressional performance revives their impeachment ratings on.wsj.com/2YheUny

[Narciso79]

Is Ben Rhodes brother still running the news division.

[henry]

Employees just lie and take the days anyway. This just makes PTO accounting more painful for employers.

Under new legislation signed into law May 28 by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, workers in Maine will now be able to accrue paid time off — and use it for whatever they wish. Maine is the 11th state to guarantee full-time workers paid sick leave, but the first to allow the time to be used for something other than personal illness.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/24/maines-new-sick-leave-policy-is-victory-for-the-states-employees.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

[henry]

from the drunk blog... wish I was watching now.

Stephen Green • July 24@10:03 AM chat 0 comments

Rep Jim Jordan is up now, and he's taken off his suit coat like he means business, and he's going over the details of that do-nothing meeting with the Russians.

Mueller: "I can't go into that."

Jordan: "Yes you can, because you wrote about it."

More, but I'm waiting for a Twitter video. This is a damning line of questions.

[MissMarple2]

As Jim Jordan begins questioning, the House goes into session and C-SPAN 1 cuts its coverage. It can be seen on C-SPAN3 if you can access it.

A poster on Twitter also noted that each democrat questioning gets a close-up, but when the GOP asks questions they do a long shot of the whole committee.

[James D.]

I don't have the heart or the patience to watch any of this.

[Threadkiller]

CBS was doing closeups of the Republicans, MM. The last hearing I watched on CSpan, they did exactly what you described. I noted it here on JOM, but I don't remember the specific hearing.

[GUS]

Can someone fill me in, I'm lost. Is this Mueller chap, the same WHITE HAT that was Director of 4-D operations? It appears to me, that this fool can't even take out the 1-D garbage and recycling to the curb.

[Buckeye]

More fucking theater auditions.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 7m7 minutes ago

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

[Threadkiller]

Once again CBS has the printed quote ready. This time before Dem Cedric Somebody even asked the question.

This is collusion

[MissMarple2]

Watch Mueller Struggle answering why he hired and fired Peter Strzok pic.twitter.com/jrvqpnwey6

— Matt Couch 🎙 (@RealMattCouch) July 24, 2019

1-minute video at link. HA!

[Threadkiller]

Good thing Mueller can take it on his big chin. He is a devoted Trump supporter for sure.

[Rocco]

Perhaps it's because I'm partial to wrestlers, but I love Jordan!

“It is humbling to be honored in such a way by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame,” Jordan said. “Through the sport of wrestling, I learned lessons about hard work and discipline that I have carried with me throughout my life. I’ve been blessed to have the support of a loving family and great coaches throughout my life, but I am particularly thankful for my experience in Badger wrestling and what it has meant to me and so many others who have been a part of one of the best programs in history.”

IMO, there isn't a sport out there that requires as much hard work as wrestling does. It's a work ethic that follows you through life. I'm happy to say that my youngest learned that work ethic that wrestling teaches.

https://news.theopenmat.com/college-wrestling-news/jim-jordan-honored-as-outstanding-american-by-hall-of-fame/38896

[Extraneus]

“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?” Chabot asked.

“I’m not familiar with that,” said Mueller, while scouring through his 448-page report of the Russia probe.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/24/mueller-not-familiar-fusion-gps-dossier/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

As I said long ago, Weissmann, and now obviously the guy who protected Hillary's Hammer, ran the show while square jawed Mueller played the Bob Stack part.

[MissMarple2]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders‏Verified account @SarahHuckabee · 5m5 minutes ago

What’s been clear to all but the liberal media is this was a partisan investigation run by Democrats out to destroy @realDonaldTrump with Mueller as the figurehead. Thank you House Democrats for calling today’s hearing and exposing the truth for all Americans to see

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Brett Baier: "Is it even conceivable that Mueller was ever in charge of this investigation?"

[Tom R]

Cates is completely wrong on what Mueller said. Mueller told Gohmert that he was there to advise the President about the director position.

Actually Cates was 100% correct. Mueller clearly said he was not at that meeting as a candidate for the FBI Director job. Right after he said that Gohmert dropped the topic like a hot potato.

I can't wait to be told Trump was lying on that tweet.

You've been told that now.

[Threadkiller]

I have believed that for some time as well, Ig.

[Extraneus]

Mueller hearing becoming very confusing and sad.

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 24, 2019

[MissMarple2]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/24/maganomics-imf-increases-forecast-of-u-s-economic-growth-simultaneously-downgrades-global-growth-prediction/

[Threadkiller]

Here we go again.

I'll check in later.

[GUS]

Jim Jordan wrestled for Wisconsin. Smart man.

[MissMarple2]

TK,

Just ignore. It's real easy to scroll on by.

[boris]

Parse farce.

Mueller can say he attended the meeting to advise POTUS.

POTUS can say while he was there "advising" he volunteered to take the gig.

[clarice]

Mueller's hubris spells his doom. He never should have agreed to testify.

[Neo]

Did somebody run Mueller thru that Russian aging app ?

[Threadkiller]

Usually, MM. I tend to read every comment when we are watching a hearing.

Comments that defend Mueller make me sick.

[Extraneus]

Funny, Muelller can’t understand the Republicans but he can totally understand the Democrats questions. This is a disaster for dems.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 24, 2019

[henry]

I'm running out of rakes.

[Narciso79]

Remember donovan in the last crusade? When he drank from what he thought was the grail cup.

[MissMarple2]

INBOX: pic.twitter.com/h210oi9iBr

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 24, 2019

Photo at the link. Worth clicking on!

[MissMarple2]

Mark Meadows‏Verified account @RepMarkMeadows · 20m20 minutes ago

Brilliant from @Jim_Jordan. He asks why Joseph Misfud, the key DOJ witness who helped launch this garbage collusion conspiracy, lied 3 times but DIDN’T get charged—even as Mueller was charging people connected to Trump for lying.

Mueller refused to answer. Blatant conflict.

[Extraneus]

I'm not sure anyone could have done more to discredit Mueller's report and investigation than Mueller is doing right now. He can't answer simplec questions about his own investigation, fumbles answers about his own report, and seems utterly befuddled by what's happening.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 24, 2019

[Tom R]

Comments that defend Mueller make me sick.

I wasn't defending Mueller. I was correcting your mischaracterization of his testimony, which just happened to support what I have been saying all along about his meeting with Trump.

[Threadkiller]

You have said, all along, that Mueller met with Trump to orchestrate how the SC would procede.

Please provide the quote from today's testimony, Tom.

[Extraneus]

Jordan: Who allegedly told Papadopoulos about the Russians having Hillary's e-mails?
Mueller: Can't answer. Internal deliberations.
Jordan: What do you mean you can't answer? IT'S IN YOUR REPORT. It's Joseph Mifsud. Who *your report* says lied. Why didn't you charge him?

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 24, 2019

[Extraneus]

It seems evident from the hearing that Mueller’s role in the Russia investigation was purely supervisory, which would help explain his evident unfamiliarity with all but the topline findings of his report.

— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 24, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Boris with the Queen in photo. He is now officially Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Boris https://t.co/as9jW2mfk0 pic.twitter.com/BerV75cdc8

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) July 24, 2019

[Old Lurker]

Clarice, the movie is as old as DC. Old soldiers agree to "just one more" assignment then destroy whatever image they created over their decades in that town. And by "destroy", I mean they drop their masks and reveal who they were all along.

[henry]

Michael Tracey @mtracey
7m

Humiliating: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries spends five minutes trying to get Mueller to agree that Trump committed obstruction. At what was supposed to be the climax of the questioning, Mueller responds: "I'm not supportive of that analytical charge"

[MissMarple2]

Old Lurker,

It seems to me that Mueller was INCOMPETENT all along, and I am not certain how much good intel we got under Bush's watch.

I think he got the job because he looked the part.

[Narciso79]

Lawrence Walsh was the same way, he was the star in Eisenhower justice department then they gave him piecework like the Paris delegation and aba committee assignments, he fished a small mouth bass or two.

[MissMarple2]

Mollie‏Verified account @MZHemingway · 1h1 hour ago

Mueller admits he and Comey, whose firing by Trump he investigated and wrote about in his report, are friends. Previously claimed no conflict of interest.

[Extraneus]

Biggs: Six days before you were appointed, DAG Rosenstein called to speak to you about appointing a special counsel.
Mueller: I don't have any knowledge of that happening.
Biggs: We have evidence that that call happened and that's what was discussed.
Mueller: I have no knowledge.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 24, 2019

[clarice]

Why do you think they had George HW Bush heading the CIA,OL? Same story.

[GUS]

So we are NOW TOLD, that it appears that Mueller was merely "supervising".

I guess that leaves the HILLARY DONORS he hired as the real investigators.

No bias there.

[Dave (in MA)]

What’s been clear to all but the liberal media is this was a partisan investigation run by Democrats out to destroy @realDonaldTrump with Mueller as the figurehead.

I think it's also clear to the liberal media, but they're continuing to try to hide this fact from their viewers.

[Extraneus]

Biggs: When did you personally come to the conclusion that there was no evidence of Trump colluding/conspiring with Russia to steal the election from Hillary?
Mueller: We investigated for two years.
Biggs: I get that. When did you reach your decision?
Mueller: I can't say.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 24, 2019

[Narciso79]

Well that and bill Colby thought confession was his job, stansfield Turner was much the Sam's way in reverse.

[Tom R]

TK @ 10:42

In response to Gohmert's question about the meeting with Trump about the FBI Director job, Mueller's response was "Not as a candidate" at which point Gohmert dropped it like a hot potato and did not follow up. I have been saying from the outset that whatever the purpose of that meeting was, it wasn't a job interview for the FBI Director position. You disagreed with me on that. Are you willing to admit you were wrong on that one issue?

[Old Lurker]

Clark Clifford and BCCI

[Threadkiller]

Mueller made it clear that the OLC opinion is the only reason he didn't indict Trump during questioning from Ted Liu

[Extraneus]

This is remarkable. Mueller can’t answer key questions, seems unaware of basic information, and admitted he denied exoneration of Trump over a standard that doesn’t exist.

No one needs to discredit this process. Team Mueller and House Democrats are discrediting it by themselves.

— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) July 24, 2019

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
4m

“Mueller was asked whether or not the investigation was impeded in any way, and he said no.” In other words, there was NO OBSTRUCTION. @KatiePavlich @FoxNews

[MissMarple2]

🚨WOW🚨

Rep. @Jim_Jordan just rips the bark off Mueller:

"You can charge 13 Russians, no one has ever heard of, you can charge all kinds of people around the president with false statements, but the guy who puts this whole story in motion, you can’t charge him?"

Just. Savage. pic.twitter.com/NuSi1yIrGt

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 24, 2019

Video at link.