Quote of the Day

Director Mueller, let me close by returning to where I began. Thank you for your service and thank you for leading this investigation.

The facts you set out in your report and have elucidated here today tell a disturbing tale of a massive Russian intervention in our election of a campaign so eager to win, so driven by greed, that it was willing to accept the help of a hostile foreign power in a presidential election decided by a handful of votes in a few key states.

Your work tells of a campaign so determined to conceal their corrupt use of foreign help that they risked going to jail by lying to you, to the FBI and to Congress about it and, indeed, some have gone to jail over such lies.

And your work speaks of a president who committed countless acts of obstruction of justice that in my opinion and that of many other prosecutors, had it been anyone else in the country, they would have been indicted.

– House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Excerpted from his closing statement in response to former special counsel
Robert Mueller's July 24, 2019 testimony before Congress

Related Off-site Links:
The Last Minutes of Mueller’s Testimony Made the Best Case for the Russia Investigation – Jen Kirby (Vox, July 24, 2019).
Adam Schiff Used Mueller to Paint a Damning Portrait of Trump’s Russia Connections – Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone, July 24, 2019).

UPDATE: 10 Key Takewawys From Robert Meuller's Testimony – Cris Cillizza (CNN, July 25, 2019).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Progressive Perspectives on the Mueller Report, “Russiagate,” and the Real Trump Scandals
• Progressive Perspectives on “Fake News” and the Alleged Interference by Russia in the U.S. Presidential Election
• Progressive Perspectives on the Election of Donald Trump as President of the United States
• Progressive Perspectives on the Rise of Donald Trump
• Carrying It On

Image: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) questions former special counsel Robert Mueller as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP/Shutterstock)