Mueller malpractice

Adriana Cohen:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be censured, if not disbarred, for violating Department of Justice rules and turning the legal system upside down for political purposes -- to "get Trump."

His malpractice was on full display this week with his unnecessary press conference to smear the president's character and reputation by inferring he committed crimes -- without bringing charges.

Our legal system doesn't work that way.

The accused is either innocent or guilty based on factual evidence -- not nuance or smoke and mirrors. If prosecutors have insufficient evidence and can't bring charges against someone, the case is dropped. And prosecutors aren't supposed to damage a person's reputation for spite.

But that's exactly what Mueller did in violating Department of Justice rules and protocols.

In the U.S. justice system, Americans are afforded the presumption of innocence, and the burden to proof is on law enforcement -- not the defendant. But Mueller took a sledgehammer to that foundational principle during his partisan press conference by saying, "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. ... We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime."

Seriously, folks? Mueller and his rabid team of partisan lawyers just completed a 22-month exhaustive special counsel investigation into all things Donald Trump at an estimated cost of $35 million. With unlimited resources -- and the president's full cooperation -- Mueller and his cabal of pro-Hillary Clinton lawyers interviewed hundreds of witnesses including top White House officials, campaign associates and family members. They reviewed 1.4 million documents provided by the White House and conducted an over-the-top raid of the president's former lawyer Michael Cohen's home, forever damaging attorney-client privilege. They raided Roger Stone's private home -- in a heavy-handed, embarrassing spectacle -- using helicopters, amphibious vehicles and a dozen heavily armed law enforcement agents to pull the old man out of bed in a pre-dawn arrest.
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Mueller's investigation was based on a hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton the DNC and Fusion GPS with the assistance of rogue FBI officials.  The allegations of obstruction of justice are also laughable.  Mueller was never obstructed.  He completed his investigation.  That the fact that he found no collusion is because there was none.  He used prosecutorial extortion to try to get Trump associates to tell things that were not true.