Chuck Todd mocked for posting link to Mueller Report, insinuating Trump is a Kremlin asset

Former NBC News host Chuck Todd is being mocked for posting a link to the Mueller Report in light of the Trump administration’s moves to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.Todd, who recently stepped down as host of “Meet The Press” for an as-yet-to-be announced new media venture, took to X on Wednesday and posted a link to the American Constitution Society’s web page detailing “Key Findings of the Mueller Report.”Referencing the Mueller Report, Todd wrote that it was “something folks out to reacquaint themselves with.”Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and opponent of US support for Ukraine’s war effort, accused Todd of “impl[ying] [President Donald] Trump is a Kremlin asset.”“Playing all the old hits — because in desperation, what else do they have?” Greenwald wrote.Another commenter on X wrote: “Chuck are you insinuating he’s still a Kremlin agent or the just being blackmailed with the pee tape?”The “pee tape” is a reference to an unsubstantiated claim from the discredited “Steele Dossier.”The document put together by former British spy Christopher Steele alleged that during a 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, Trump hired prostitutes to perform lewd acts in a hotel room, which Russian intelligence purportedly recorded to use as potential blackmail material.Another X user told Todd: “The report was a failure, Chuck.

Deal with it.”“Further, the obstruction case cites ‘non-cooperation with the inquiry by the President, including refusing requests by the Special Counsel for an interview’,” X user Jim Stinson wrote, adding: “He has that right under the 5th Amendment, dummy.”Robert Mueller is a former FBI director and special counsel appointed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.He led the Mueller Investigation from 2017 to 2019, examining possible coordination between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, as well as potential obstructi...

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