Distractions and Sound Bites

Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on July 17 – about two weeks from now, as this is written. 

According to a report in the Associated Press, trump has scheduled a rally for that evening in North Carolina. It’s billed as a campaign rally, but it seems pretty clear to me its real purpose is to serve as a distraction from Mueller.

It won’t work.

Of course, Mueller is not expected, at this point, to say much of anything that isn’t already known. “Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report,” he said at his May 29 press conference. “It contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made. We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself.”

But the value of Mueller’s testimony, as I see it, is in reducing that lengthy report, which most people have not read, to a series of easily digestible sound bites – sound bites that will be seen and heard by many millions. Having the words spoken by Mueller himself will give them added weight.

Not likely it will make much difference, in the long run. trump, that charlatan and lowlife – a man so out of touch, he thinks love of country means hugging the flag – will ramp up his distraction, and his abuse on Mueller, the Constitution, the American people, and common sense. This villain must get his comeuppance. His guilt, his corruption, his incompetence, and his lack of human decency are already plain as day.