A Very Stable Genius by Rucker Philip & Leonnig Carol

Author:Rucker, Philip & Leonnig, Carol [Rucker, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

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The April 24 meeting would prove to be one of the only times Trump’s new legal team would engage directly with Mueller. The special counsel typically deferred to Quarles or Zebley to interact with the opposing side—so much so that the president’s lawyers wondered how much work Mueller was actually doing.

“I always had a feeling they were hiding him,” Giuliani would later remark. “He had only one case. It was a case against the president of the United States, a very sensitive case. The inmates were running the insane asylum.”

Giuliani would recall John Dowd telling him, “Well, he’s not really on top of the case. He’s kind of like delegating it.”

Trump’s team was not the only group to note Mueller’s distance. Justice Department officials who had to interact with the special counsel’s office from time to time talked about Mueller as the wizard in the classic film The Wizard of Oz. They would knock on the door. Zebley or another subordinate would crack it open and hear the question or learn about the problem. Then the door would shut, Mueller’s team would discuss it internally, and the door would reopen with Zebley or someone else delivering the wizard’s edict.

Mueller did not allow outsiders into his sanctum or to be a part of his team’s deliberations, even if there were other stakeholders. To the Justice Department officials on the other side of the door, this was patronizing. Zebley and Quarles in particular were protective of their boss. When talking to Justice Department officials, they referred to him as “Mr. Mueller.” For instance, they would say, “You don’t need to talk to Mr. Mueller.”

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