Here are my observations and opinions on the House Mueller hearing.

After the Mueller Report became available online and in print form, Democrats insulted the public as illiterates. They were sure you hadn’t read it, so they subpoenaed its author, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to appear before two House committees, insisting that even those who have read the book, needed to see the “movie,” and will be convinced that President Trump was guilty of collusion and obstruction of justice.

I read the report, but I was awake at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and watched three and a half hours of his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.

There he was, the leading man. Gary Cooperish. Tall, gray-haired and looking like he just came from central casting.

When he began speaking, however, his voice was weak and shaky. I was reminded of my wife’s comment following his May 29, 2019 announcement that he had concluded his report and was resigning his commission as special council. “He doesn’t sound well,” she said, hinting that he might not be well.

We weren’t alone. Here are some of the perceptions I heard from pundits and politicians following his appearance: “A daft old man” … “doddering”… and “fragile.”

And when it came to his responses to questions, here are more observations: “Clueless” … “lack of command” … “deeply confused”… “struggled to hear questions and often asked for questions to be repeated” … “he didn’t know who was asking him a question.” The optics were terrible.

While no one believes that he wrote the report, his unfamiliarity with the report was evident. When asked to read a one-line sentence from the report, he refused.

He refused to answer the simple inquiry if CNN had been tipped off to cover the FBI’s early morning invasion of Roger Stone’s home.

I was struck by his response to the question of the cadre of attorneys he amassed for his investigation, believed to be 19, all of which had connections to the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton.

I actually felt sorry for him when he said “14 of them came from the DOJ,” as if that made them bipartisan. Many of those were Obama holdovers. Is he that clueless?

Perhaps the most memorable assessment of Mueller and his report came from Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) who concluded that “it was like he (Mueller) had dropped his report in a paper bag, set it on our front porch, lit it on fire and rang our door bell.

Harvard law professor and critic of President Trump, Laurence Tribe, said of the hearing: “Much as I hate to say it, this morning’s hearing was a disaster.”

And from former Obama advisor David Axelrod: “He wasn’t sharp. It was very, very painful.”

Try as they did, the Democrats attempted to put Mueller on a pedestal, repeating over and over his decorated career as a Marine officer in Vietnam and his extensive FBI experience, but he came across as a man whose time has passed.

It was pathetic and sad.

Congressmen Nadler and Schiff should be ashamed of themselves for dragging him into the spotlight.

Game over. Can we now get back to the business of making American great?

               May God continue to bless the United States of America.