After months of calling on special counsel Robert Mueller to testify about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, House Democrats’ wish is about to come true. Mueller, who has studiously avoided the political firestorm around his findings, will now appear in back-to-back public hearings before the House […] Read more »
Democrats want Mueller to tell swing voters what Trump did wrong
When Cathy Garnaat, a Republican voter in Michigan, told NBC News in May she was unaware the Mueller report said “anything negative” about President Donald Trump, it was a bracing illustration of a stark reality: While America’s political class has been obsessively following the two-year investigation into Russia’s efforts to […] Read more »
How Americans view Mueller and impeachment, in five charts
Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III will testify before Congress on Wednesday about his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump. … Public opinion polls show that Americans have nuanced views on Trump and the results of the Mueller […] Read more »
For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller’s investigation
As former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller prepares to testify before Congress, nearly two-thirds of Americans – including, for the first time, a majority of Republicans – say they are confident he conducted a fair investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. CONT. Hannah Gilberstadt, Pew Read more »
Is Robert Mueller an antique? The role of the facts in a post-truth era
Lee McIntyre, Boston University In just a little over eight minutes – on the morning of Wednesday, May 29th – the post-truth era came to an end. Or did it? That’s when Special Counsel Robert Mueller took the podium and addressed only the facts concerning his two-year-long investigation into Russian […] Read more »
Why Robert Mueller Should Testify on TV
… After Mr. Mueller submitted his report, he made the doomed assumption of many a longform journalist: That people would read his full work and draw conclusions then and only then. That allowed Attorney General William P. Barr to become the editor who writes the clickbait headline for all the […] Read more »