PIERS MORGAN: Shambolic Mueller’s train wreck testimony has left his reputation trashed, the dumbstruck Democrats dead as dodos and President Trump laughing all the way to a second term

By the time he’d finished his stumbling, bumbling, obfuscating, dithering appearances before the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee, that reputation lay in tatters. 

Frankly, he was embarrassing. 

He looked old, bleary-eyed, exhausted, and slightly out of it. 

I take no pleasure in saying this because Mueller has served his country with great distinction, as a decorated war hero, highly regarded lawyer and respected FBI director. 

But none of that excuses his dismal performance today, which did a grave disservice to the American national interest. 

This was supposed to be the moment of clarity, the moment when Americans could finally get all remaining questions answered about this whole sorry Russia collusion affair – straight from the horse’s mouth, on live television. 

Instead, they got a political pea-souper so foggy that even Mueller didn’t seem to know what the hell he was talking about. 

In perhaps the single most staggering exchange – one I could barely believe I was watching - Mueller was asked by Republican congressman Doug Collins if ‘collusion’ and ‘conspiracy’ were, in colloquial language, ‘largely synonymous’ terms. 

In other words, to most people’s understanding, they have the same meaning. 

Mueller replied firmly: ‘No.’ 

Yet, as Collins pointed out, in Mueller’s own report and in his May 29 press conference, he said the complete opposite. 

‘So would you change your answer to “yes” then?’ Collins asked, given this complete contradiction. 

Mueller stammered ‘No’, then scrabbled around looking frantically at a piece of paper, before asking Collins to repeat his very simple, unambiguous question. 

Collins read again Mueller’s own words from his own report, stating that ‘collusion’ and conspiracy’ are ‘largely synonymous’ words. 

At which point, Mueller gave up trying to explain his baffling U-turn on this crucial point, and told Collins: ‘I leave it with the report.’ 

Incredibly, he later made things even worse when he forgot the word ‘conspiracy’ altogether. ‘We don’t use the word ‘collusion’,’ he stated in the latter part of the day. ‘We use…’ 

He couldn’t finish the sentence. 

He couldn’t remember what word they use instead. 

He had to be told by his questioner that the word was ‘conspiracy’.

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