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Home Front: Politix
ABC's Karl: Sources Close to Mueller Say His Report ‘Almost Certain to Be Anti-Climactic'
2019-01-14
[Breitbart] Sunday on ABC’s "This Week," ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said his sources "interacting with" special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said Mueller’s forthcoming report was "almost certain to be anti-climactic."

Partial transcript as follows:

KARL: What I am getting is that this is all building up to the Mueller report and raising expectations of a bombshell report. And there have been expectations that have been building, of course, for over a year on this. But people who are closest to what Mueller has been doing, interacting with the special counsel caution me that this report is almost certain to be anti-climactic. If you look at what the FBI was investigating in that New York Times report, you look at what they were investigating, Mueller did not go anywhere with that investigation. He has been writing his report in real time through these indictments and we have seen nothing from Mueller on the central question of, was there any coordination, collusion, with the Russians in the effort to meddle in the elections? Or was there even any knowledge on the part of the president or anybody in his campaign with what the Russians were doing, there’s been no indication of that ...

STEPHANOPOULOS: They hadn’t laid that out yet in the indictments but how do things like the Trump Tower meeting with Russians, Don Jr., Paul Manafort, Paul Manafort giving polling data to Ukrainian oligarchs, the pursuit of a Trump Tower in Moscow. How does that fit into this theory?

KARL: What we’ve certainly seen over and over again is the people around the president, first of all, have been willing to lie to investigators, and had their own dealings with Russians, had their own agendas with Russians. And Manafort was trying to get paid for his work on behalf of Ukraine. Flynn had his own dealings. But it is not added up to anything of the central question, again, was there anybody ‐ was the Trump campaign aware of or coordinating with the Russians in their effort to meddle with the election. So far there’s been nothing on that and I’m led to believe don’t expect there’s going to be any.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Premature and anti-climatic.

Operation Will Wheaton.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-01-14 21:14  

#10  Why do I keep flashing back on the term "unindicted co-conspirator"?

Witch hunt from day one and an ongoing diversion from the true crimes of the Clintons and Obamas.

Any over under on when the first shots of the next revolution will be fired?
Posted by: AlanC   2019-01-14 16:20  

#9  That's why verdicts are rendered as Guilty or Not Guilty, as opposed to Guilty or Innocent...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-14 16:06  

#8  I expect the report to use a lot of weasel words designed to allow the left to claim Trump did this and that but it was unproven or covered up or whatever so he got away with it.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-01-14 15:43  

#7  Here's one link via Lucianne:

https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-report-trump-helped-putin-destabilize-us-watergate-journalist-1289541
Posted by: Caesar etc   2019-01-14 09:17  

#6  yet Lucianne is full of articles today saying the Mueller novel will claim Trump worked with Putin to destabilize the US.

A convenient historical cover for the evil and skulduggery of President Trump's predecessor.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-14 09:06  

#5  It was a witch hunt to find something on the Don. They kept it going even when they couldn't find anything to keep the narrative alive. Now they can wind down the investigation as the demoncrats have the house and can issue impeachment after impeachment to keep the narrative alive.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-01-14 09:04  

#4  yet Lucianne is full of articles today saying the Mueller novel will claim Trump worked with Putin to destabilize the US.

Posted by: Caesar Cloluter6522   2019-01-14 09:02  

#3  Urinalysts interviewing each other. Must be nothing there.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-01-14 08:30  

#2  Deep State expectation management in action.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-14 04:05  

#1  Like everyone here's been saying for what, two years now?
Posted by: Raj   2019-01-14 01:17  

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