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Originally Posted by finnbow
It was the Trump DOJ that appointed a Special Counsel who found numerous crimes committed by the Trump campaign. Indeed George Papadopolous was the one whose statement to an Australian diplomat launched the investigation.
Trump could have surrounded himself with competent, honest people. Instead he chose Manafort, Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Papadopolous, Kushner and other unsavory, dishonest clowns. It was Trump and the behavior of his campaign that caused a Special Counsel to be appointed.
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Damn, you record keeps skipping.
No, that's not why Mueller was appointed, and you don't get to re-write history:
The appointment of Mueller — who is widely respected on both sides of the aisle -- comes after a growing outcry, mostly from Democrats, amid fallout of President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey last week. While the White House initially insisted the dismissal was precipitated by Comey's mishandling of the investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's emails — outlined by Rosenstein in a memo — Trump later told NBC's Lester Holt that the Russia investigation factored into his decision.
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/52884...e-russia-probe
Now, you can make the point that the appointment of Meuller was specifically to continue the investigation over Russian collusion, but then you'd need to also concede that Mueller's probe didn't find any evidence of collusion. And no one really expected them to, because they were looking in the wrong place.