Here are my observations and opinions in a general follow-up to yesterday’s SPECIAL: Mueller Hearing Is A Big Disaster.

During my morning research, I noted a number of quotes about Robert Mueller’s hearing performance that I thought I would share with you:

“There are, naturally, loads of tweets about Mueller’s lackluster performance.” – Politico

“Friends and political allies who have known him for decades have expressed concern about his appearance today.” – Joe Scarborough, MSNBC

“So look, on optics, this was a disaster.” – Chuck Todd, “Meet the Press”

“Watching the split screen, Nadler’s crestfallen frustration was visible even in the first answer from Mueller to a committee question. It was the 89^th time Mueller testified to Congress since 1990 … his hands often quivering and his hearing clearly impaired.” – Thomas McArdle, Issues & Insights

“Mueller was an extremely hesitant witness, and we now know why.” – Guy Benson, Townhall

“Seems confused at times and uncertain about key parts of his own report.” – Michael Isikoff

“All due respect to Mueller, but it’s obvious now that he was merely a figurehead for the investigation. So a Republican was the nominal leader of a group of Democrats who actually led the probe.” – Chuck Ross

“He (Mueller) has a guilty conscience … manifest in the many questions he claimed he could not or would not answer on the subject of the predicate for his investigation. As the world knows, more and more it’s becoming clear that the entire Russia probe was a put-up job.” –Roger L. Simon, PJ Media

“Not only was Mueller often flustered and unprepared to talk about his own report, we now have to wonder to what extent he was even involved in the day-to-day work of the investigation, but he was needlessly evasive.” – David Harsanyi, The Federalist

While watching the Mueller testimony before the Judiciary Committee, I was particularly interested in the questioning by Arizona representatives. Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko inquired of Mueller whether he knew how many times the Washington Post, New York Times and Fox were mentioned in his report. Seemingly befuddled by the question, he finally indicated he didn’t know. Lesko made the point that Volume Two was primarily made up of quotes from left-leaning papers.

Democrat Rep. Greg Stanton provided an awkward moment when Mueller whiffed his softball question. In an attempt to counter assertions that Mueller was biased against the president, Stanton asked questions about his service under Republican presidents, according to Robin Bravender, AZ Mirror

“Which president appointed you to be U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts?” Stanton asked.  After a hesitation, Mueller said, “I think that was Bush.”  Oops.  It was President Reagan. “My mistake,” muttered Mueller.

Wouldn’t you think he would remember this important event in his life?

DID YOU HEAR that when Republican Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, referring to the Mueller Report, asked Mueller whether “conspiracy” and “collusion” were synonymous terms, even though “collusion” is not a finite legal term? “No,” Mueller replied, causing him to change his answer after reading his own report.

When Mueller refused to answer if he wrote a particular memo, Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas responded bluntly, “I’ll take that as a yes.”

A number of pundits noted that they doubted Mueller was involved in his own team’s process as they had been led to believe. “He seemed to lack adequate knowledge on the information inside his own report, and although it is a large report, it does raise questions about how involved Mueller actually was in the investigation. And if he wasn’t in charge of his own staff, who was?“ wrote Chrissy Clark with The Federalist.

Former FBI director Mueller, we were told when he was appointed special counsel in 2017, is a lion, a dogged crusader for truth, but on Wednesday “he was a shell of a man; he stammered, sat open-mouthed, gawking, endlessly asked for questions to be repeated and rephrased, and failed to remember what was contained in his own 448-page report,” noted Tom McArdle of Issues & Insights, “strongly indicating that it was not Mueller, but his team of left-leaning, Democrat-contributing prosecutors.”

Pundits also remarked that they have yet to learn of a single investigation interview in which Mueller himself participated. Strange. You may recall how stunned I was to learn that former FBI director Comey didn’t participate in the interview of Hillary Clinton.

Democrats were convinced that the public, most of whom didn’t bother to read the report, needed to see the “movie” – Mueller’s hearing – but in my opinion the movie only confirmed that there was no there, there … and there will be no Oscar.

                   May God continue to bless the United States of America.