Writing this column on the Mueller Report (again) feels like being in the movie Groundhog Day, reliving the same "get Trump" storyline over and over. In last month's column, I reviewed the various investigations into the "Russia collusion" narrative and recounted that 4 separate investigations: (i) the FBI investigation, (ii) the House Intelligence Committee (iii) the Senate Intelligence Committee and (iv) the Special Counsel, have each come to the same unremarkable conclusion: no evidence to support any charge of wrongdoing on behalf of the President or anyone affiliated with his campaign. Just because there was unanimity on the conclusions of these four separate investigations, however, does not mean the Democrats would accept the truth. It has long been a policy of the left not to let the facts get in the way of their narrative, and since the Mueller report and the prior investigations do not support the "Trump collusion" narrative, the Democrats are determined to re-re-reinvestigate. The first response by the Dems to the conclusions of the Mueller report was to shoot the messenger, in this case, Attorney General William Barr. The smear campaign against Attorney General Barr is a familiar kabuki dance between the Democrats and their media allies, where it is often difficult to tell which players are the partisan politicians and which are the "objective" journalists. The echo chamber the Democrats and the media have created for themselves is so insular and devoid of facts that not only was the "no collusion" conclusion of the Mueller investigation a surprise, but the look for befuddlement was profound on the faces of Democrat members of Congress when Attorney General Barr testified that he intended to investigate the spying that the Obama administration undertook with respect to the Trump campaign. When confronted with the fact that they had fed the public a steady stream of disinformation about Trump collusion, the media showed no signs of contrition. Instead, they joined with Democrats to disparage Attorney General Barr and continue to be utterly disinterested in knowing how the Obama administration weaponization the FBI and the DOJ for political purposes to spy on the Trump campaign. Image how much larger Trump's victory might have been if not for such tactics.

With no finding of collusion in the Mueller report, the emphasis by critics of the President has shifted to allegations of obstruction of justice, despite the fact that there is no evidence that the Mueller investigation was obstructed by anyone in any way. To the contrary, the President did not invoke executive privilege or withhold documents, even though it would have been perfectly legal for him to have done so. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had oversight of the Mueller investigation. Rosenstein is no fan of President Trump and Mueller's team of investigators were decidedly anti-Trump, yet even this partisan group could not conjure up evidence of collusion or obstruction. Instead, Mr. Rosenstein joined in Attorney General Barr's assessment that there was not sufficient evidence to support the obstruction allegations against the President. Those critical of President Trump have cherry-picked language from the Mueller report, citing the President's reaction to the appointment of the Special Counsel and his characterization of the investigation as a witch hunt. I suppose they feel the President should have been more gracious in how he responded to the patently false accusations against him of treason, the attempts to undermine his presidency and the threats to jail him and his family. Actions are the things that count, and there is no evidence of any action by the President that obstructed the Mueller investigation into a non-existent crime. It is not as though the President withheld subpoenaed emails and destroyed computers and hard drives- those types of actions are clear evidence of obstruction of justice.

For two years we have been subjected to the same tired narratives against the President, unsupported by facts. Like Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, it is time to wake up to reality and move on.