Kenneth Starr Was a Witch Hunter. Robert Mueller Is a Prosecutor.
Starr went on for four long years. No Republican said that was too long. And Mueller has a heck of a lot more to investigate than Starr did.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
05.11.18 5:06 AM ET
Each time a shoe drops in the Trump investigation, this time the news about Michael Cohen’s slush fund that had people paying him $1.2 million even after they determined he couldn’t do anything for them, the Trumpy snowflakes start in. Wah wah wah. Stop the investigation. Robert Mueller is another Ken Starr! It’s the most biased investigation in the history of known civilization! If Mueller doesn’t have anything, it’s time to shut it down!
It’s all ridiculous, and worse—it is designed to discredit the investigation and prop up Donald Trump, and it will have the effect, if successful, of destroying what’s left of our democratic institutions and processes, leaving them only as things to stripped bare and used for maintaining political power.
Let’s go down the list of differences.
For starters, Mueller, unlike Starr, is a member of the president’s own party. If judges had tried to appoint a Democratic independent counsel to investigate Bill Clinton, can you imagine the conservative howling? It would never even have happened. The right would have demanded that person’s immediate resignation. And The New York Times and The Washington Post would have said, well, hmmm, they have a point.
Which brings us to another key difference, the manner in which both men were appointed. Mueller was appointed by a member of the president’s own party, Rod Rosenstein. Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel of the circuit court for the District of Columbia, two of whose members were well-known activist conservatives. One of them had called liberals “leftist heretics” (heretics! From what?!) in a journal article.
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