GREGG JARRETT: Robert Mueller's tragic fall from grace and the damage he left in his wake

Sometimes beneath the noble exterior, quality imperfection is exposed, and a sturdy estimation is shattered.

With the caller passing of Robert Mueller we are reminded that adjacent accomplished figures tin stumble into an abyss of mediocre decisions and regrettable mistakes. His tarnished bequest is the bittersweet coda to a erstwhile towering beingness and career.

Mueller’s earlier work successful the subject and precocious authorities positions, including arsenic manager of the FBI, was commendable. But successful May 2017, helium agreed to service arsenic peculiar counsel to analyse allegations that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to interfere successful the 2016 statesmanlike election.

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What followed was a contemptible partisan inquisition that tore the federation isolated and severely impaired Trump’s archetypal word successful office. Thuggish tactics, coercion, and threats were deployed, guiltless radical were targeted and persecuted and ineligible rights were shredded — leaving lives successful ruins.

In the end, Mueller’s belated study recovered that determination was nary Trump-Russia conspiracy. Anyone with an ounce of communal consciousness already knew that. It was each a hoax and the worst governmental fraud ever perpetrated. But the harm was done, and Mueller bears overmuch of the blame. And the shame.

I recounted the disfigured details successful my book, "Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion successful American Political History." As peculiar counsel, Mueller’s actions were not lone noxious but patently unfair to Trump and truthful galore others.

In the end, Mueller’s belated study recovered that determination was nary Trump-Russia conspiracy. Anyone with an ounce of communal consciousness already knew that. It was each a hoax and the worst governmental fraud ever perpetrated. 

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His inability to find a scintilla of incriminating grounds against Trump did not deter him. In usurpation of Justice Department rules, helium publically disparaged the president with tales of suspicious behaviour alternatively of stating grounds that roseate to the level of criminality.

The peculiar counsel learned aboriginal successful his probe that determination was nary grounds of collusion and that the president had committed nary crimes. Mueller admitted it to Trump’s lawyers successful a gathering connected March 5, 2018. He should person ended his misbegotten probe close past and there, sparing the federation prolonged divisiveness and trauma.

But Mueller was obsessed and refused to bash the close thing. Instead, helium shifted his absorption to whether the president someway obstructed justness for, among different things, daring to publically knock the probe. Trump had a First Amendment close to bash so, of course. Mueller didn’t care.

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He spent the adjacent twelvemonth chasing the elusive shade of obstruction without success. It was particularly ludicrous since fired FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, some testified that nary 1 had obstructed the bureau’s probe and that the probe continued uninterrupted aft Comey’s departure.

Former FBI manager James Comey is seen testifying earlier Congress. Comey is expected to record a question to disregard his transgression lawsuit connected Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, citing 'vindictive' prosecution. (Cheriss May/Getty Images)

No matter. In his March 2019 report, Mueller turned the instrumentality upside down with an incendiary connection guaranteed to ignite a occurrence nether the president’s inveterate haters:

"While this study does not reason that the President committed a crime, it besides does not exonerate him."

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Mueller’s rationale was unintelligible. As immoderate lawyer volition archer you, it is ne'er the occupation of a authoritative anyplace to exonerate people. By this 1 act, Mueller managed to reverse the load of impervious and invert the presumption of innocence, which are sacrosanct principles successful American law.

He had nary volition of treating Trump reasonably oregon conforming to the law. Rather, Mueller spent 183 pages maligning Trump by implying that, nether definite circumstances that did not really exist, the facts mightiness prolong an obstruction case.

Mueller declined to complaint the president successful a tribunal of instrumentality but was determined to indict him successful the tribunal of nationalist sentiment with outlandish smears. He shrewdly created the content that Trump mightiness person engaged successful wrongdoing due to the fact that helium could not beryllium otherwise. It was disgraceful.

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Mueller should ne'er person accepted the occupation of peculiar counsel. He had much than 1 disqualifying struggle of interest, including his adjacent ties to Comey, who was a pivotal witness. The assignment itself had the insufferable Comey’s soiled fingerprints each implicit it.

The screen of Gregg Jarrett's publication the Russia collusion hoax, "Witch Hunt."

Even worse, Mueller had met with the president successful the Oval Office the time earlier helium accepted the duty to analyse Trump. It was a trap. The assignment by Rod Rosenstein, the lawman lawyer general, was not conscionable a perfidious enactment of retribution, it was contrary to national regulations.

The ensuing witch hunt assumed an odious magnitude arsenic Mueller hired a "hit squad" of highly partisan prosecutors. They loathed Trump, and their toxic bias polluted the study they produced. But what they omitted was revealing.

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Nowhere successful the 448 pages volition you find a azygous connection astir the corrupt acts and gross misconduct astatine the FBI that formed the ground of Mueller’s probe. He besides turned a unsighted oculus to who engineered the collusion hoax to power an predetermination and destruct a presidency.

The fictional communicative was invented and funded by Hillary Clinton to sully her governmental hostile and extremity the predetermination successful her favor. Behind a treble firewall of hidden payments, her run and Democrats hired a bumbling ex-British spy, Christopher Steele, to conjure up a phony dossier that was past funneled to the FBI, DOJ, and the Trump-hating media, which eagerly gobbled it up arsenic gospel.

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The faux ungraded took flight. Yet each of that was deliberately ignored by Mueller and his confederates. The surreptitious acts of Clinton and her cronies to hustle and hype the nonexistent collusion conspiracy were brushed aside.

The magnum opus that Mueller yet produced stands arsenic an egocentric monument to the miscarriage of justice. When called to attest during televised hearings, it became an embarrassing spectacle. The peculiar counsel stumbled and stammered. He seemed mislaid and confused.

Mueller struggled to recognize basal questions. His answers were slow, halting, and uncertain. It was evident that Mueller had not written the study that bore his name. He had a feeble grasp of the facts and seemed oblivious to the instrumentality that supposedly supported the grounds cited therein.

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The debacle of his disoriented sermon was a catastrophe politically and a calamity personally for Mueller. He was not what his vaunted estimation promised. His diminished intelligence acuity made plain that helium had been small much than a detached figurehead, ceding bid and power to his cadre of hyper-partisans.

Anyone who devotes his beingness and vocation to serving our state deserves our thanks. Tragically, for each of Mueller’s exemplary work earlier successful his career, his last undertaking volition everlastingly stain his legacy. His mistakes and miscalculations were laid bare for each to see. As a consequence, helium committed a sedate disservice to the nation. History should retrieve it arsenic a tragic epilogue to a beingness that was different good lived.

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