The Wall Street Journal is trying to sabotage Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe

| 11:41 pm EDT May 29, 2017
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Even as the New York Times and Washington Post have spent the past months racing each other to uncover Donald Trump’s Russia scandal in real time, the nation’s other biggest newspaper – the Wall Street Journal – has been largely absent from that race. It’s led some to ask if the WSJ simply doesn’t want Trump taken down by scandal. And now a new WSJ article about Special Counsel Robert Mueller is such a head scratcher that I’m left to suspect it’s trying to sabotage his investigation from the start.

Today’s article from the Wall Street Journal gets off to an optimistic start with the headline “Robert Mueller Gets Off to Fast Start as Special Counsel in Russia Probe” (link). In fact the article maintains a cheerful tone throughout. But it cheerfully focuses on a number of supposed problems with Mueller’s investigation.

The article starts off by making the unsubstantiated assertion that when the FBI declined to turn over James Comey’s memos to Congress this week, it was at the instruction of Robert Mueller. It then goes on to assert that the “clashes between the special prosecutor investigation and parallel inquiries by Congress are likely just beginning.” Except that no such clashes are known to exist, anywhere outside of this article.

Elsewhere the WSJ article cheerfully goes into great detail about a number of supposed conflicts of interest which Robert Mueller has with his own former law firm which could stand in the way of his Trump-Russia investigation, only to end up admitting that no such conflicts exist, with everything having already been officially cleared.

And then, in what seems like an almost desperate attempt at convincing the public that this investigation isn’t going anywhere, the Wall Street Journal randomly asserts that Mueller’s probe “could take years to conclude.” What’s it basing this stunning claim on? Nothing at all. So why is the Wall Street Journal trying to sabotage Mueller’s investigation by painting all these clouds over it? Could Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the Wall Street Journal have anything to do with it?