JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Accountability’? The Mueller Hearing Is How Trump Escapes” – The New Yorker/ Susan B. Glasser
“After so much waiting – a hundred and twenty-four days, to be precise, since Robert Mueller’s report was delivered – perhaps it was bound to be a disappointment. Still, three hours after the former special counsel took the witness stand on Wednesday to testify about his investigation of President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election … MSNBC anchor Brian Williams described it as a ‘disaster’ …
White House press secretary[] Stephanie Grisham[] called the hearing an ‘epic embarrassment’ for the Democrats … the pro-Trump Drudge Report ripped the septuagenarian former F.B.I. director as ‘dazed and confused.’ The President, who had said he wouldn’t watch Mueller’s testimony but clearly could not restrain himself, seemed gleeful. ‘I would like to thank the Democrats for holding this morning’s hearing,’ he tweeted after a few hours. Finally, there was something that Trump-era Washington could agree on: Mueller had bombed ….”
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