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Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, appeared before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees in Washington on Wednesday.
AP reported Mueller “bluntly dismissed President Donald Trump’s claims of ‘total exoneration’ Wednesday in the federal probe of Russia’s 2016 election interference.”
Mueller warned that Moscow still presents a threat to American democracy, warning about interference in the 2020 election.
He delivered neither crisp TV sound bites to fuel a Democratic impeachment push nor comfort to Republicans striving to undermine his investigation’s credibility. But his comments grew more animated by the afternoon, when he sounded the alarm on future Russian election interference. He said he feared a new normal of American campaigns accepting foreign help.
He condemned Trump’s praise of WikiLeaks, which released Democratic emails stolen by Russia. And he said of the interference by Russians and others: “They are doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign.”
His report, he said, should live on after him and his team.
“We spent substantial time assuring the integrity of the report, understanding that it would be our living message to those who come after us,” Mueller said. “But it also is a signal, a flag to those of us who have some responsibility in this area to exercise those responsibilities swiftly and don’t let this problem continue to linger as it has over so many years.”
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