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Hart: Lessons learned from Mueller debacle

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington on Wednesday. (Erin Schaff/The new York Times)
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington on Wednesday. (Erin Schaff/The new York Times) Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington on Wednesday. (Erin Schaff/The new York Times)

The Mueller probe was: two years, 19 lawyers (all Democrat donors and partisans), 40 FBI agents, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 500 witnesses, and countless lives thrown into turmoil by harassing people about the aforementioned. All 2,800 people subpoenaed likely had to hire an attorney for at least $50,000 each to protect themselves from being railroaded for some minor misstatement, as Gen. Michael Flynn was.

It cost $40 million, but the government does not know for sure because it does not care what things cost taxpayers. The big witness was Robert Mueller who, when asked his name, asked what page that was on. Mueller was supposed to be the Democrats’ Zeus, raining down thunder and lightning on Donald Trump. Yet all he did was create fog. He looked like an old man at his country club arguing with the manager about when happy hour ended.

Avoid the inclination to feel sorry for Mueller; he callously ruined many lives. If he were a real hero, he would have realized a month in that Trump did not collude with Russia and shut this investigation down. He cleared Trump but in a weaselly Washington way told Jerrold (“Lil Nads”) Nadler and Adam (“Shifty”) Schiff, “That is all I can do with no evidence; now it is up to you to impeach on no evidence.”

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Democrats made us endure an embarrassing $40 million witch hunt for their own political theater. That $40 million could have been better spent on getting about 100 of Hollywood liberals’ jake-legged kids into USC.

Here are the silly process crimes this scorched earth debacle got us: