Thread by @LibertyAndTech

A thread. Millions of people today learned a lot about the Special Counsel, the investigation, decisions made around it, and about Bob Mueller himself. Here is a sample of what we learned in 6 hours of testimony. Keep in mind that Democrats legally forced Mueller to do this.

The sad fact that became apparently is that Mueller was a figurehead. He wasn't aware of various things in his report. When pages were cited, he didn't even read them. Mueller was far from being "sharp as a tack" as claimed by Jake Tapper.

Mueller kept asking for citations but wasn't actually doing anything with that info. Sometimes he turned the notebook to that page, other times not. In any case he wasn't reading the words on the page. So why ask for the citation in the first place? This behavior was obvious.

Mueller literally asked "can you repeat the question now that you have it on screen?" - followed by "can you repeat the last question" as one DNC Rep was rephrasing the question to him. He did this to Sensenbrenner, after that, as well.

Mueller couldn't answer simple questions. He kept asking for questions to be repeated. Doug Collins made Mueller change an answer by citing the report. This happened multiple times throughout the hearing. He was unaware "collusion" was in the report.

Mueller's report directly linked collusion as shorthand for conspiracy, for the sake of the report. You would think Bob Mueller would know that's in the Mueller Report. His words were read directly to him, and then he ceded that argument.

Mueller claimed he had the power to subpoena the president, unquestioningly. Nevermind that Dowd and the rest of Trump's legal team said they would challenge that in court, and Mueller himself chose not to go that route, for fear of losing. Mueller had agency and made the choice.

Bob Mueller did not write his own report. He didn't do a significant portion of any part of the investigation. It's apparent many of the leaks came from his team, and were not authorized by him, and he was unaware of the Barr letter complaint leak.

Mueller was unaware of Fusion GPS - the company that paid Chris Steel for the seminole evidence used to trigger the original FBI investigation, and all subsequent investigations, that comprised the Russiagate hoax, and Spygate scandal.

Mueller said he "wasn't familiar" and asked if that information was in the report. Mueller said the report was his testimony, and he contradicted it several times throughout the hearing. Both the report, and what he said through the hearing.

He didn't just know "collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy" but he seemed largely unaware of Professor Mifsud. The FBI probe was first started as a tip from professor Mifsud, and was soon padded with Chris Steele's dossier.

He was unaware, as one of the top prosecutors in the land, that prosecutors cannot exonerate. He was challenged directly multiple times, and he declined to argue otherwise. Millions saw this. Where is the presumption of innocence within the Special Counsel? Due process?

Nowhere in the special counsel regulations does it say to write a report about decisions that weren't reached. No rule exists that says prosecutors exonerate. His own report says nothing rises to impeachable conduct, and that should be it.

Bob Mueller said his investigation was never curtailed, stopped, or hindered at any time. That means any obstructive charge must rely on the attempt at obstruction, not any success of doing so. He didn't withhold any witnesses or resources. Millions saw this.

Trump even gave Mueller's team a lot of information that was executive privilege, on a handshake agreement. That's outside the report, and not mentioned in the hearing, but facts that directly counter the notion Trump's team obstructed. Among other things.

Mueller could not provide a single example other than Donald Trump where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined. He said this was a special circumstance, so I guess no due process.

Mueller essentially said Glenn Simpson was "outside his purview" - the Trump Tower meeting, Veselnitskaya, and involvement by Fusion GPS, once he ceded its role earlier. Things clearly within the four corners of this report, and could comment on, he said were outside his purview.

Mueller admitted on live TV that he was once friends with James Comey, a notable, if not disqualifying, conflict of interest. He originally said no, but eventually ceded that point under cross-examination. Mueller was clearly ill-equipped to counter basic argumentation.

No one member of the team looked at everything with regard to the Mueller Report. This is eye-opening. It affirms the notion these were lawyers working in silos - which is fine - but not a detail I've heard before today. To now, this was a contiguous domain that Mueller mastered.

Bob Mueller didn't write that letter to AG Barr, that the left got super outraged about, after it was leaked by someone in the Special Counsel.

Mueller attended very few of the 500 or so interviews conducted by the Special Counsel. His team. The investigation was clearly ran by his team, and he barely participated in any way. I'm not even sure he attended interviews by Weissman to add staff to his Special Counsel.

He admitted his team did not make a determination that Trump or his campaign, or administration, committed obstruction. That was a correction he made after he said otherwise it was based on OLC advice early in the first hearing.

Mifsud lied to Mueller's team and they declined to prosecute. You'd know that if you read the report, but it's in the made-for-tv "movie" of today, and is worth mentioning. And he declined to explain why, or touch on him being a western asset.

Mifsud told Papadopoulos that the Russians had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. Bob Mueller had no clue that was the case. That's the apparent first predicate, and a lie, but no charges filed by the Special Counsel. His staff didn't tell him?

Mueller said the Steele dossier predated him, but it was used as a source, and he wouldn't even admit to interviewing Steele, which was reported that his team did. He wouldn't admit to basic facts that were reported publicly.

Mueller couldn't state the dossier was influenced or in large part Russian disinfo or misinfo, when at least 2 sources are alleged by Steele to be Russian sources. No apparent concern for the inaccuracies that the FBI apparently documented, prior.

No apparent conflict check was done by Bob Mueller, and we know from outside the hearing that Weissman did the hiring, but Weissman was conflicted himself, not just a dozen or more others within the team. Very few were not conflicted. What a farce.

We learned the Russian Collusion narrative was largely ignored by both sides. Because that was largely debunked by Mueller's report. That was what drove all the investigations into the Trump campaign. Given that was false, the investigation was invalid.

Mueller said Hillary Clinton's ties to Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier were outside his purview, yet as of the time he was appointed the Steele dossier was largely vetted and either unverified or disproven, but his team used it anyway.

Mueller’s team renewed at least one FISA warrant with wording cut and pasted from the Steele Dossier. "Undercover Huber" said this best, so I'm just copy/pasting that since I can't improve perfection.

Mueller's team investigated for two years but wouldn't say when they made any determinations, when there is clearly nothing preventing him from answering that, so he opted to save his neck there, and/or that of his team.

Mueller literally said he hasn't looked at the ethical standards for charging a president after he leaves office. That means his report wasn't a handoff for prosecution later, because it was dismissed by the prosecution.

Mueller didn't agree that Trump created obstruction, which is what every Democrat wanted. Wouldn't go that far. Not a convincing case for making that case via impeachment, especially when indictments aren't possible later. (see prior tweet)

Ted Lieu laughably asserted that Mueller wrote the report, and he didn't actually write it. The myth of Mueller as a superhero with a command of the facts and the investigation, were shattered today. He's the Wizard of Oz, and that curtain's been lifted.

Mueller wouldn't admit the Down voicemail transcript was edited, when it clearly was. This was a bizarre conversation that he ended up demurring, and then time expired.

I'm out of time, but there's hours more of revelations I could talk about, that came out of today's Mueller hearing, but if anyone claims there wasn't anything that really came out of this meeting, just show them this thread. They weren't paying attention. Undeniable evidence.