Former special counsel Robert Mueller's hearings before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees Wednesday should be among the most important moments of the Trump presidency—the rare, and perhaps only, chance to question the man who has spent two years investigating and uncovering the various attempts of Donald Trump to circumvent US democracy.
Let’s be clear about what Robert Mueller found. His work uncovered two separate criminal conspiracies that benefited the surprise election of Donald Trump. The first was allegedly led by Trump himself alongside his lawyer Michael Cohen, to cover up damaging stories about himself through federal felony campaign finance violations; the second, which Mueller literally charged as a “conspiracy against the United States” was led by the Russian government and involved a variety of pro-Trump, anti-Clinton information operations, advanced through identity fraud, computer hacking felonies, and other crimes. There is ample—even overwhelming—evidence that Donald Trump sought to obstruct the Russia investigation.
Both conspiracies represent attempts to corrupt the democratic practice of free, open, and transparent elections.
It’s important that Democrats keep the focus of the next week's hearing on that core message, because GOP members have made clear they plan to muddy Mueller’s findings—and his reputation—by shouting a lot about Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Christopher Steele, and a host of other vague, conspiratorial theories that ultimately matter not at all to Mueller's ..
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