How Can We Believe Mueller’s Liars?

Special counsel Robert Mueller has squeezed President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen into pleading guilty to lying to Congress, potentially dealing Cohen a penalty of $250,000 and five years in prison, on top of penalties for eight other crimes unrelated to the Trump campaign and Russia to which Cohen pled guilty earlier in the year. Cohen’s plea came the same week right-wing author Jerome Corsi accused Mueller of trying to coerce him into admitting lying to investigators, all while Mueller nullifies a cooperation agreement with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whom he accuses of lying when he agreed to cooperate in the first place.

Mueller has done a terrific job of portraying Trump campaign aides as liars. Low-level Trump campaign consultant George Papadopoulos has already served his fourteen-day sentence for making false statements to investigators. Former Manafort aide Rick Gates has pled guilty to a false statements charge. The same goes for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Dutch lawyer and former Gates contact Alex van der Zwaan, and now Cohen. Yet he’s thus far failed to provide evidence that the Trump campaign committed any actual crime.