{"id":1310885,"date":"2019-05-31T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/reagan-column-muellers-big-nothing-burger\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T03:56:00","slug":"reagan-column-muellers-big-nothing-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/reagan-column-muellers-big-nothing-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan column: Mueller\u2019s big nothing burger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There was a big media buildup and a lot of wild guessing by the pundits on FOX and CNN about what Special Counsel Robert Mueller was going to say in his public statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But in the end, after Mueller\u2019s nearly 10-minute sum-up of his two-year, $40 million investigation into Russian election interference in the 2016 election, we were left with no bombshells, no smoking guns, no surprise twists \u2013 nothing new.<\/p>\n

We heard nothing from Mueller we didn\u2019t already know, and he took no questions from reporters.<\/p>\n

But because the language Mueller used this week was different from the language Attorney General William Barr used when he summarized the basic conclusions of the Mueller Report Barr in April, Mueller\u2019s statement gave a fresh jolt of energy and hope to the Deranged Democrats\u2019 dream of impeaching the president.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows that if Mueller had found even a whiff of collusion with the Russians or the slightest hint of obstruction of justice by President Trump, he would have already made that charge \u2013 in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS \u2013 on page one of his 400-plus-page report.<\/p>\n

Mueller didn\u2019t do that in April and he didn\u2019t do it Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop most of the 23 Democrats running for president or the Trump Hate Media from slobbering all over Mueller\u2019s deviously worded and legally shifty statement.<\/p>\n

The Democrats and CNN\u2019s embarrassingly unbalanced panels of Trump-hating journalists parsed every other word to \u201cprove\u201d that, see, Mueller thought Trump really was guilty of obstruction but he just couldn\u2019t charge him because he\u2019s a sitting president.<\/p>\n

Now, thanks to what Mueller said and didn\u2019t say, the craziest Democrats in the House wanted to start impeaching the president yesterday morning. But Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi knows nothing new was learned Wednesday that wasn\u2019t already in Mueller\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

Pelosi may eventually be forced by her caucus to proceed with impeachment, but she knows that it would probably backfire politically on the Democrats in 2020 and that it is never going to happen anyway as long as Republicans rule the Senate.<\/p>\n

Despite the liberal media\u2019s biased overreaction, Mueller\u2019s statement was another fizzled \u201cblockbuster\u201d in the \u201cRussian Collision\u201d fantasy that diehard Trump haters still think was real.<\/p>\n

The issue Mueller raised that should matter most to Americans now is, \u201cWhat exactly did the Russians do to screw with our democracy in 2016?\u201d and \u201cWhat should we be doing to prevent them from trying to screw with our elections next fall?\u201d<\/p>\n

None of the Democrats running for president said anything about working on legislation to prevent Russian hackers from meddling in our elections again.<\/p>\n

All they and their soulmates in the liberal media did was declare Mueller a great American patriot and climb on the \u201cImpeach Trump Now\u201d bandwagon.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin and his old KG\u2013comrades in Moscow are still laughing their butts off about 2016.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t spend much on Facebook ads. They didn\u2019t hack our election systems and change vote totals. And they didn\u2019t help Trump steal the White House from Hillary.<\/p>\n

But their meddling has succeeded in disrupting the American political system far beyond Putin\u2019s wildest dreams.<\/p>\n

And thanks to the sore-loser Democrats and the Trump-hating establishment media, both of which still refuse to believe Trump could have beaten Hillary without committing a crime or treason, Russia\u2019s interference is still succeeding.<\/p>\n

Mueller made a big deal out of Russia\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election on Wednesday and stressed in his written report how deeply involved they were.<\/p>\n

But you don\u2019t hear the Democrats in Congress and the liberal media talking about the importance of stopping the Russians from interfering in our elections.<\/p>\n

All we\u2019re hearing is the \u201cI\u201d word \u2013 impeachment.<\/p>\n

In the end, the deranged reaction to Mueller\u2019s statement by the Democrats in Congress and their soulmates in the media has made it clear \u2013 for the hundredth time \u2013 that they are much more interested in stopping Trump in 2020 than stopping the Russians.<\/p>\n

Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of \u201cLessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan.\u201d He is the founder of the email service reagan.com and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Visit his websites at http:\/\/www.reagan.com<\/a> and http:\/\/www.michaelereagan.com<\/a>. Send comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com<\/a>. Follow @reaganworld on Twitter.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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