Mueller Hearing Quotes

He did not want to hear or believe what she said, and so she said nothing.

Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from “countless members of the FBI” was a “slip of the tongue.”482 She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made “in the heat of the moment” that was not founded on anything.483

Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from “countless members of the FBI” was a “slip of the tongue.”1765 She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made “in the heat of the moment” that was not founded on anything.1766

plain from his findings—that the president committed multiple crimes. In other words, if Mueller wanted to hear from Trump, he could have subpoenaed him; if Mueller thought Trump committed a crime, he could have said so. Instead, by hedging on both issues, Mueller undermined his otherwise remarkable work. — Like any bully, Trump was emboldened by the retreat of his adversary. This was apparent in the almost surreal confluence of events on July 24 and 25,

No matter what turns up—in the congressional hearings probing Trump’s financial entanglements, in the Southern District of New York’s examination of wrongdoing outside Mueller’s purview—the GOP had committed itself to a fully binary view of politics that safeguards Trump’s survival. This was justified not by adherence to principle but by addiction to power: the power to hold office, the power to make laws and influence government, the power to appoint judges, the power to project ideology onto the culture at large, and the power to deny such powers to an opposing party.