That … seems like a big deal.
#BreakingNews: A key member of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe represented Hillary Clinton's IT staffer in the email case, Fox News confirmed. pic.twitter.com/TLUWCUCUCx
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) December 9, 2017
We know lawyers do lots of work, and represent lots of clients. It doesn’t make them culpable for their client’s actions. But the fact that a key player investigating Trump and his associates, an investigation predicated on information that was compiled for partisan reasons by partisan people and then delivered the FBI as investigative work, a key player in the potentially huge case of Russian influence and the Republican President … THAT key player defended an IT staffer working for that very same partisan source of the information in the first place?
THAT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD AT ALL, MUELLER.
As we already know, this is not the only Clinton tie. Here’s more from Fox:
Meanwhile, at least two Mueller investigators’ past legal work for Clinton-tied figures is getting a second look as Republicans hunt for signs of bias.
Aaron Zebley, another former partner at WilmerHale and a former chief of staff to Mueller when he served as FBI director, represented Justin Cooper, a key figure in the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
Cooper is the longtime Bill Clinton aide responsible for helping set up the now-infamous private email server. Cooper later admitted to “two instances where he destroyed [Hillary] Clinton’s old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”
Jeannie Rhee, another former partner at WilmerHale, represented ex-Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case, and Hillary Clinton herself in a lawsuit seeking access to her private emails.
Fox’s Charles Payne, in the above video, refers to Zebley as Mueller’s “right hand man,” though it’s not clear where that designation originated.
It doesn’t matter, really, if he’s the right hand man or not. This looks absolutely horrible. If you were setting up such an important team, would you populate it with people who have ties to the opposition?
How and why would Mueller? How can a professional of such purported high caliber have allowed something like that to be part of his incredibly high level and important special counsel investigation? He couldn’t have not known. Which means he knew and did it anyway.
He couldn’t have not known how it would look. Which means he knew and did it anyway.
I mean … seriously. Seriously!