I’m not sure who else is feeling it...the crushing, crushing disappointment. I am not terribly disappointed in how yesterday’s Mueller’s hearings actually went. Sure, it lacked the drama of the Cohen hearings. But we saw that coming didn’t we?
The disappointment is with how the press has handled this. This was their do-over and their chance to make up for “Attorney General Barr Says That Trump is Innocent and King” headlines.
So what have they done? They’ve turned this into an analysis of — “were there enough fireworks?” “Did enough new damning information come out to move the needle?”
Hello, editors from major media outlets. You have just thrown cold water on the whole darn thing. You! Not Mueller. Not Democrats. Not the shrill Republicans who yelled about conspiracy theories for 6 hours yesterday.
Here are the headlines that should have been out there today:
“Mueller Says Russia is DOING IT AGAIN”
“Mueller Says Trump was Untrufthful in Written Answers”
“Mueller Blasts Trump’s Gleeful Encouagement of Foreign Election Interference”
“Mueller States that Numerous Members of Trump Administration Lied During Investigation, Obscuring Deeper Truths About the Trump Campaign’s Role in Assisting or Cheering Russian Interference”
“Mueller States that Trump Can Be Indicted When He Leaves Office”
“Mueller Says that DOJ Policy Prevented Indictment Against Trump”
“Republicans Devote Hearing to Debunked and Unsubstantiated Conspiracy Theories”
There are a lot of things from the Mueller Report that needed to get packaged in succinct form. Some Americans already knew these things. Others did not. The big media outlets are dropping the ball again. I don’t see how we can continue to support them if they continue doing business as usual.
So please, write letters. Shout it from Twitter. Boycott.
Tell these outlets that their horse-race-like approach and focus on whether Democrats or Republicans had a better day is killing us. America had a good day yesterday—the truth was stated on live television for the world to see. It’s just that the media screwed it all up.