With Raid on Trump’s Lawyer, Mueller Jumps the Shark

Act of desperation reveals the true purpose of the special counsel’s investigation

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, special counsel on the Russian investigation, leaves following a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington on June 21, 2017. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

It is official: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is dead.

Mueller, nonetheless, is not ready to retire yet. Like a soap opera character who has exhausted the plot, Mueller has jumped the shark. In order to save his sagging narrative, Mueller has taken up the causes of two women who claimed to have had affairs with President Donald Trump long before his election.