Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a former state judge, grilled former Special Counsel Robert Mueller about his friendship with fired FBI Director James Comey, his Trump-hating staff and exposed Mueller as a puppet of his staff when Mueller could not say that he wrote his own May 29 press conference statement.
Gohmert began by entering his 2018 report, Robert Mueller Unmasked, into the record. The report can be found via this link.
Gohmert followed by asking Mueller who wrote his May 29 statement which Mueller refused to answer when a simple, “I did”, would have sufficed if he had written it.
Amazingly, Mueller initially denied being friends with Comey, who succeeded him as FBI Director under President Obama, saying that they were “business associates” who “both started out at the Justice Department about the same time.”
Mueller said he “can not remember” if President Trump mentioned the firing of Comey when they met they day before Mueller was appointed Special Counsel.
When Gohmert asked Mueller about when he knew FBI agent Peter Strzok was a Trump-hater, Mueller had difficulty following the question.
Gohmert closed with a fiery defense of Trump’s behavior–as an innocent man knowing he was being unfairly targeted by a biased prosecution–saying “he is not obstructing justice, he is pursuing justice. And the fact that you ran it out two years means you perpetuated injustice”
Mueller declined to answer Gohmert, saying twice, “I take your question.”
Full video:
Videos clips:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): Who wrote the nine-minute comments you read at your May 29 press conference?
Mueller: "I'm not going to get into that."
Gohmert: "Okay. So that's what I thought, you didn't write it." https://t.co/EbzpQ0lnrr pic.twitter.com/w7idTlbMYF— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) July 24, 2019
Gohmert: "If somebody knows they did not conspire with anybody from Russia to affect the election & they see the big [DOJ] with people that hate that person coming after them…the fact that you ran it out 2 years means you perpetuated injustice."
Mueller: "I take your question." pic.twitter.com/buO4pqQ2bV— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) July 24, 2019