A lawyer for former national security adviser Michael Flynn questioned special counsel Robert Mueller’s mental acuity as Flynn’s legal team seeks to dismiss the charges against him.
“It seems like some neurological problem has evolved there for Mr. Mueller. I don’t know how soon that started. Ultimately, he is responsible for all of this because he was supervising the investigation,” Sidney Powell told John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable radio show on Sunday.
Flynn, who served as President Trump’s national security adviser for less than a month, pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a Russian diplomat before Trump entered the White House.
While working with his previous legal team, Flynn cooperated with Mueller’s team in the Russia investigation. But his new team, which includes Powell, has been more aggressive in fighting the charges, and Flynn has declared his innocence, claiming he was set up by the FBI.
Mueller’s mental acuity was heavily scrutinized after he testified to Congress about the Russia investigation and appeared not to know key facts about the inquiry. He was previously considered to be sharp and competent.
People close to Mueller, 75, said they believed “something happened” to the former FBI director over the course of the two-year Russia investigation, according to a Washington Post reporter.
“Phil [Rucker] and I, my co-author, we are not medical professionals, but over and over again, John, we heard from people who are very close to Bob Mueller who found him a different person, a changed person, after two years of this investigation,” Carol Leonnig said in January.
