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Mueller Tried to "Fix" Grand Jury According to Witness

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Observations by an unnamed witness who reportedly testified before special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal grand jury last year have raised additional concerns among some regarding the former FBI director’s impartiality.

As part of his investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russian operatives to affect the outcome of the election, Mueller set up a federal grand jury to hand down indictments.

And according to a witness who reportedly testified before the jury panel last year, the jury’s makeup resembles that of a left-wing rally.

“The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally,” the unnamed witness said to Page Six. “Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley (Calif.).”

The witness reportedly based this stunning conclusion on the fact that 11 of the jury’s 20 jurors were black, while two were wearing “peace T-shirts.”

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“There was only one white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor,” the witness said. “That room isn’t a room where POTUS gets a fair shake.”

Maybe, maybe not.

Let me be clear about something: Impugning the impartiality of Mueller’s investigation because the jury contains too many black jurors or too few white jurors is very risky business.

What’s not so risky (or risqué, for that matter) is to rightly note that Mueller has in the past displayed what can best be described as a disturbing left-wing bias.

Last year, the Conservative Tribune noted that, of the 13 attorneys who had by then been hired by Mueller to aid him in his investigation, one previously defended the Clinton Foundation from allegations it operated as a racketeering enterprise.

Moreover, at least three had “donated overwhelmingly to Democrats, totaling more than $53,000 since 1988.”

Fast forward to December of 2017, when word broke that two FBI officials who previously aided Mueller in his investigation had exchanged text messages during the summer in which they appeared to discuss ways to prevent then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump from being elected president.

While it’s true Mueller removed them after he learned of their text messages, that he allowed such glaringly partisan hacks to ever serve on his team in the first place again raises valid concerns about his commitment to impartiality.

“Mueller seems to have made almost no effort to select attorneys from outside Washington, from diverse private law firms across the country, who were without personal involvement with the Clinton machine, and who were politically astute or disinterested enough to keep their politics to themselves,” noted Victor David Hansen in an op-ed for National Review last month.

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“By now there are simply too many coincidental conflicts of interest and too much improper investigatory behavior to continue to give the Mueller investigation the benefit of doubt,” he added.

And that’s the point. Ideally, the makeup of Mueller’s jury should never be a concern. Except that the special counsel’s clear-cut bias now has some wondering whether Mueller purposefully stacked the grand jury with people who may themselves already be biased against Trump and his associates.

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