Mueller's legacy

Victor Davis Hanson writes in American Greatness,

In some sense, Mueller sought with the dossier to find wrongdoing elsewhere, when it was right under his nose all along. Again, the circumstances of the dossier’s creation and dissemination were the catalysts for the 2016 election scandal.

Robert Mueller’s legacy will be not so much that he was chasing the white whales of Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort, or even that he is another Patrick Fitzgerald desperate to indict Trump as the new Scooter Libby. Instead, Mueller’s testament thus far will be one of willful blindness: he saw nothing ethically or legally wrong, or dangerous to the republic, in a bought and fictional dossier that fueled both his own reason to be, and in various ways was central to an historic government effort to surveille, to infiltrate, to undermine, and to discredit a political campaign first—and later to derail an elected presidency.

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