Rachel Maddow returned to MSNBCs weekend lineup to eulogize Robert Mueller while simultaneously reviving the long-discredited Russia collusion narrative against President Donald Trump.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Maddow appeared on The Weekend: Primetime on Saturday, only hours after news broke that the former FBI director had died at the age of 81. The longtime MSNOW host praised Mueller personally but insisted that his two-year investigation into President Trump failed not because the allegations were baseless, but because thenAttorney General Bill Barr supposedly outplayed him.
Theres a reason on a day like this, we need to remind people what was in Muellers report what were the results of his investigation and thats because of a failure on his part, Maddow said. That is because once his investigation and his report were concluded, he was just wildly outmaneuvered by a really serpentine Attorney General named Bill Barr, who played really dirty pool when it came to the handling and release of the information from Muellers investigation. In Maddows telling, the problem was not the lack of evidence to support years of breathless collusion claims, but rather that Barr allegedly manipulated the publics understanding of Muellers findings.
Maddow went further, speculating about Muellers mindset and portraying him as politically nave in the face of Barrs supposed machinations. I dont know if he was blindsided by it or if he thought Barr was a good guy and would be a straight shooter on this, but Barr absolutely buried him in terms of in terms of the impact of of that report. And given the way that bill Barr became attorney general, Mueller and his team should have seen that coming.
She argued that Muellers team bore responsibility for not countering Barr more aggressively, effectively faulting them for failing to wage a political campaign around their own work. If they did see it coming, they should have come up with a way to outmaneuver Barr while he was outmaneuvering them, and they didnt. For critics on the right, this only underscored how deeply the media class remains invested in salvaging the Russia narrative, even after it failed to produce the devastating blow to President Trump that many on the left had promised.
Maddows remarks come as the Russia hoax itself is again under scrutiny, with former FBI Director James Comey recently subpoenaed to testify in a new investigation of the origins and conduct of the probe. Given Maddows years of confidently promoting theories that never materialized, some conservatives argue that Department of Justice officials should consider placing her under oath as well, to determine who fed her the insider information she cited so often and why so much of it turned out to be wrong.
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