VIEW from behind the plow

Special Counsel Robert Mueller proved Wednesday his membership in good standing as a Washington Swamp denizen.

He’d already had his two years in the limelight, digging diligently (without success) for any dirt on President Trump. He could have and should have kept his mouth shut.

It was obviously his parting effort to stir the pot and give the coup attempt some credibility.

Mueller said that he couldn’t reach a conclusion on whether Donald Trump obstructed justice, as he stopped short of delivering a full exoneration of the president.

“If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so,” Mueller said in his first public remarks in the two years since he was named special counsel. He defended his investigation, as he announced that he was closing his office and stepping down.

Mueller sent a signal to House Democrats who have demanded his testimony that he won’t provide any information that hasn’t already been made public. “Any testimony from this office would not go beyond this report,” he said.

The special counsel also said he found “insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy” on election interference.

So after two years and some $30 million he couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump but he did find a way to keep the waters muddied by issuing a nonsensical statement designed to send “Never Trump” addicts into a hysterical war dance.

They are grabbing at straws in an effort to gain legitimacy for their illegitimate claims as to why they lost the 2016 election.

Their babblings have encouraged some two score full-blown socialists to put their names forward as potential Democrat nominees for president in 2020.

Guess who’s waiting in the wings to try again.

We can just imagine the conversation in the Clinton household.

Hillary: “But Bill, I promise I won’t blow our chance for eight more years in the White House while you fill our fake foundation with fees from more speeches paid for by America’s enemies, foreign and domestic. And, besides, you know it wasn’t my fault I lost. It was that Electoral College thing; it was Russia; it was the putrid economy that Obama created (yeah, I know I was part of that administration); it was those dumb deplorables that couldn’t understand the brave new world I was leading them to (just like Barack promised). After all, I did win the popular vote” (if you don’t discount all the illegal aliens who voted for her).

Bill: “You were a weak candidate and ran a dumb campaign.”

Hillary: @#$%$^&” (interpretation: “Them’s fightin’ words, you stupid @#$%^&.”)

End of “interview” with the Clintons.

There is little doubt that Jerry Nadler, the Democrat congressman from New York and chairman of the House Judiciary committee, will seek to bring impeachment charges against the president.

The nation is in a civil war; the bullets just haven’t started firing, yet.

An item in a recent issue of Time magazine quoted Nadler calling President Trump a “liar.”

The item also pointed out that Nadler had a long-time feud going with the president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a less intense position on the possibility of impeachment.

She probably sees impeachment as a no-win strategy for her party.

The booming Trump economy has diminished criticism of the president.

The president’s poll numbers keep rising and, besides, the Senate won’t find him guilty of any of the charges, anyway.

Possibly, Pelosi is attempting to save her party, which has been largely taken over by leftists.

Attorney General William Barr said during a press conference ahead of the release of the Mueller report that a 2000 opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel holding that a sitting president can’t be indicted was not the only reason Mueller decided against seeking to indict Trump.

“He was not saying that but for the OLC opinion, he would have found a crime. He made it clear that he had not made the determination that there was a crime,” Barr said of Mueller on April 18.

On Wednesday, though, Mueller implied that the Justice Department guidelines on a sitting president, which go back to 1973, did determine his decision.

“It would be unfair to accuse someone of a crime when there can be no court resolution,” Mueller said.

In an apparent nod toward the option of impeachment, Mueller noted that the OLC opinion also reads: “The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.”

The thought arises: Could Nadler and Co. simply be trying to steer attention away from the shoddy operation during the previous administration that led up to the Mueller event.

There must be a great deal of anxiety on the part of numerous players in that scenario who overplayed their hand in attempting to undo the last election, including fired FBI director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan along with several underlings.

One has to wonder when this president will be allowed to do the job he was elected to do unfettered by constant attacks by a biased media and unhappy former government officials.

Oh, yeah, we forget, the president promised to drain the swamp.

The rage created by-Trump’s election leads to the conclusion the swamp truly does exist.

Rep. Andy Biss (R-Ariz.) nailed it when he said of Mueller’s attack:

“I was very disappointed that he even made a statement. It was unnecessary. I thought it was reckless and irresponsible, quite frankly. So unnecessary. Why? Because he said himself almost right off the bat, he said, ‘I’m not going to say anything more than what is in the report already.’ Well then, that should’ve been the shortest news conference in history. He should’ve said, “Thank you for coming,” after that. But then he went on and tried to basically justify some of his findings with regard to obstruction of justice, and light up what he certainly would know with his experience, my impeachment-minded judiciary colleagues.”