Whistleblower charges Mueller probe contaminated by misconduct, political bias

Ex-FBI employee Robert Mueller was appointed a special prosecutor by Democrats to investigate the made-up Russian collusion story about President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Thirty million taxpayer dollars later he found no evidence.

Of course the facts are that Hillary Clinton, soon to become a twice-failed White House candidate, launched the lies in order to distract American voters from her email scandal, where she put government secrets on an unsecured home computer server.

There were many moving parts to the campaign, including the made-up Steele Dossier, Barack Obama’s involvement and more.

A later special counsel report, this one from John Durham, described the investigation as “seriously flawed” and he revealed the FBI “discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

Now a report at the New York Post reveals a whistleblower, “an FBI agent assigned to then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign,” has alleged misconduct, political bias and more “permeated the team.”

The report said it went so far as having the team members decorating their office walls “with anti-Trump cartoons and drinking alcohol on the job.”

The agent, not identified, explained a “get him” attitude discolored the two-year investigation into “false claims that Trump and his advisers colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.”

The Post report, from investigative reporter Miranda Devine, said the unsubstantiated investigation was successful for Democrats in that it “consumed more than half of Trump’s first term as president.”

Now in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, detailed the concerns of the agent, and charged the testimony “confirms long-standing concerns that political bias rotted the decision-making process within the Mueller team … The American public deserve answers.”

The report cited “the most damning allegations:”

• “There was ‘no authority’ for the Special Counsel’s Office to open a case on Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of Trump’s and chairman of his 2017 inaugural committee, over false claims that he was an unregistered agent of the United Arab Emirates. The FBI’s Washington Field Office already had declined to open an investigation into the now-78-year-old but the Mueller team nevertheless arrested Barrack, held him in jail, and charged him with being an agent of a foreign government. After a lengthy and expensive legal battle, Barrack was acquitted by a jury in 2022. He now serves as US ambassador to Turkey.”
• “The Mueller team chronically abused federal surveillance, or FISA, warrants that govern secret monitoring of suspected foreign agents to target Trump campaign advisers, even renewing them over the objections of FBI agents. In one case, the agent claimed, ‘the target of the investigation [was] cooperating and the [surveillance warrant] would not give us anything more and there was nothing in the past FISA that aided the investigation other than to prove the Target was being honest with the investigators … there were no corroborating facts that tied [the target] to certain facts that we thought were originally true.’ When investigators decided to apply for a fourth warrant against the aide, the agent pointed out a series of needed corrections. In response to the proposed revisions, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith told him: ‘We can’t send this.’ The DOJ subsequently decided the corrections weren’t needed. Clinesmith later pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that underpinned a FISA warrant application for another blameless Trump adviser, Carter Page. He was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and kept his law license after a short suspension.”
• “Mueller prosecutor Zainad Ahmad, a protege of former Barack Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, repeatedly violated security protocols: ‘For example, she brought classified documents to a meeting at WFO [Washington Field Office] without adherence to FBI security policy by bringing her classified notebook to the meeting without a proper carrying bag. What was worse, she came to WFO from her residence, meaning she kept her notebook at the residence.'”
• Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ‘referred to President Trump in a derogatory manner’ in an official interview record — and DOJ prosecutors later tried to pressure FBI agent Michelle Taylor to ‘change the tone of the [document] to reflect that McCabe spoke about [Trump] without the negative connotation.’ Taylor refused and left the FBI shortly after her second [assign]ment to the Mueller team ended, the agent said.”
• “A ‘general atmosphere … of bias [in the office was] led by one young prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky … There were caricatures and cartoons that were anti-Trump.’ Zelinsky, who handled the zealous investigations into Trump advisers Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos and Michael Caputo, resigned from the DOJ in January 2025.”