Robert Mueller: Democrats’ Collusion with Russia ‘Outside My Purview’

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His mandate required him to investigate Russian interference in the election without specific reference to a particular candidate or party, but Mueller made it clear he had only investigated President Donald Trump’s campaign.

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Robert Mueller: Democrats’ Collusion with Russia ‘Outside My Purview’

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee repeatedly on Wednesday morning that the potential collusion between Democrats and Russians in the 2016 presidential election was “outside my purview.”

Though his mandate required him to investigate Russian interference in the election without specific reference to a particular candidate or party, Mueller made it clear he had only investigated President Donald Trump’s campaign.

Under questioning by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), Mueller seemed confused, at times, about the very question:

Chabot: When you talk about the firm that produced the Steele reporting, the name of the firm that produced that was Fusion GPS. Is that correct?

Mueller: I’m not familiar with that.

Chabot: It’s not a trick question. It was Fusion GPS. It produced the opposition research document widely known as the Steele dossier and the owner of Fusion GPS was someone named Glen Simpson. Are you familiar with — ?

Mueller: That’s outside of my purview.

Chabot: Glen Simpson was never mentioned in the 448-page Mueller report, was he?

Mueller: Well, as I said, it’s out outside my purview and it’s being handled in the department by others.

Chabot: He was not. 448 pages, the owner of Fusion GPS that did the Steele dossier that started all this, he’s not mentioned in there. Let me move on. At the same time, Fusion GPS was working to collect opposition research on Donald Trump from foreign sources on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It also was representing a Russian-based company, Prevezon, which had been sanctioned by the U.S. government. Are you aware of that?

Mueller: It’s outside my purview.

Chabot: Thank you. One of the key players — I’ll go to something different — one of the key players in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was Natalia Veselnitskaya, who you described in your report as a Russian attorney who advocated for the repeal of the Magnitsky Act. Veselnitskaya had been working with none other than Glen Simpson and Fusion GPS since at least early 2014. Are you aware of that?

Mueller: That’s outside my purview.

Chabot: Thank you. You didn’t mention that or her connections to Glen Simpson at Fusion GPS in your report at all. Let me move on. Now, NBC News has reported the following: quote, “Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya says she first received the supposedly incriminating information she brought to Trump Tower describing alleged tax evasion and donation to Democrats from none other than Glen Simpson, the Fusion GPS owner. You didn’t include that in the report and I assume —

Mueller: This is a matter being handled by others in the Department of Justice.

Chabot: Thank you, Now, your report spends 14 pages discussing the June 9th, 2016, Trump Tower meeting. It would be fair to say, would it not, that you spent significant resources investigating that meeting?

Mueller: I refer you to the report.

Chabot: OK. And President Trump wasn’t at the meeting.

Mueller: No. He was not.

Chabot: Thank you. In stark contrast to the actions of the Trump campaign, we know that the Clinton campaign did pay Fusion GPS to gatther dirt on the Trump campaign from persons associated with foreign governments. But your report doesn’t mention a thing about Fusion GPS in it. And you didn’t investigate Fusion GPS’s connections to Russia. So let me ask you this: can you see that from neglecting to mention Glen Simpson and Fusion GPS’s involvement with the Clinton campaign to focusing on a brief meeting at the Trump Tower that produced nothing to ignoring the Clinton campaign’s own ties to Fusion GPS why some view your report as a pretty one-sided attack on the president?

Chabot: Well, I tell you — It’s still outside my purview.

Mueller: I would just note finally that I guess it is by chance, by coincidence, the things left out of the report tended to be favorable to the president.

The hearing continued.

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Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

“Outside of his purview”? rather like the cop booking a parked car for a minimal infringement while someone robs a bank in front of him. What he fails to recognize is that he is automatically acting under the standards of leftist hypocrisy and dishonesty by even admitting this and trying to dump the blame onto someone else despite the fact that he led the enquiry is so very democrat.

Nadzieja55
Nadzieja55
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Translation is that the Democrats/Leftists/Marxists only wanted to dump on Trump and made Mueller not look at the collusions of the Democrats with foreign entities.

cylde
cylde
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

It was not a witch hunt in as much as the only thing they wanted was Trump’s scalp, not any witch like hillary.

Martina Vaslovik
Martina Vaslovik
4 years ago

Translation: Dem collusion isn’t on the agenda to get Trump.

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

And what was the investigation to be looking for?

John Mitchell
John Mitchell
4 years ago

Mueller’s investigation was exactly what they were accusing Trump of.

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago

Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around. He was demonrat gang member why would he investigate them ? LOL !

Just like CNN and MSM canonises this pro-jihadi/pro-illegal immigration RINO while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk

Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens

Nadzieja55
Nadzieja55
4 years ago

Mueller trying to cover his behind.

David
David
4 years ago
Reply to  Nadzieja55

But also taking shots at Trump wherever possible. He still has an abiding hatred of Trump and appears willing to spend his remaining years trying to hurt Trump.

cylde
cylde
4 years ago

He claimed that that russian government “””thought “””” they would benefit from Trump being president. How could he possibly know what the Russian government thought???? They certainly never made any statements either way. Does the CIA have mind readers???

David
David
4 years ago

In explaining why he wasn’t applying a presumption of innocence to Trump, he said “it’s unique”. (I sort of wish the questioner had stopped and told Mueller to expand on that word.)

Lots of things here are unique. We should prosecute a bunch of people so they sing and explain what they were really doing.

ed
ed
4 years ago

pur·view
/ˈpərˌvyo͞o/
noun
formal
noun: purview
the scope of the influence or concerns of something.”such a case might be within the purview of the legislation”.
Range of experience or thought.”social taboos meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally”.

From my (pur)view, it looked like Mueller couldn’t wait for the lunch bell to ring so he could get out of Dodge. FAST !!!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

What can you expect? Mueller was the FBI
Director during 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, and Pulse gay bar slaughter.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

The word “purview” during the Mueller
hearings is becoming as overworked as was “point in time” during Watergate.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

Mueller went to Walgreen’s to buy some of that stuff that improves your memory but he forgot the name of it.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

Eat my shorts.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

It is time NOW for AG Barr to appoint a special counsel to fully investigate Democratic collusion with the FBI to frame Trump and others as well as the cover-up of the Hillary email scandal.

John Mitchell
John Mitchell
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Assuming that there’s anyone left in DOJ, FBI, etc. that have any integrity, I’d say that they could do it.

John Mitchell
John Mitchell
4 years ago

Well, at least Mueller admits that his(?) investigation was a ‘witch hunt’.

Keith1941
Keith1941
4 years ago

According to Mueller, Russia was trying to help Trump. Why? Hillary is the one they have dirt on. (uranium deal) Bubba is the one who was given $500,000 for making a speech. And who knows what else went on with the most corrupt couple who ever inhabited the White House.

Steven Z
Steven Z
4 years ago

The last two cites have the names switched.

Edward Cline
Edward Cline
4 years ago

The Dems hoped for a magic bullet that would sink Trump.

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6063713799001/#sp=show-clips But the gun was empty. All Mueller had was a cap pistol. With damp caps.

Gorio 123
Gorio 123
4 years ago

It all depends on what your definition of “is”, is….

Gorio 123
Gorio 123
4 years ago

It all depends on what your definition of “is”, is….

WM1
WM1
4 years ago

He’s a boldfaced liar! He knows, exactly, how this attempted coup began and who facilitated it.

His job was to circumvent the process and protect the bad actors (Obama, Hillary and their ilk) so the truth would never come out about who they are and why they did what they did-commit acts of sedition.

He, himself, is culpable.

If Barr holds him, and his comrades, accountable we may be able to salvage our dying Republic. If not, our days are numbered. Simple as that.

John Mitchell
John Mitchell
4 years ago

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