The View host Whoopi Goldberg asserted that Robert Mueller looked “frail” and “low energy” during congressional hearings Wednesday because he was acting.
“People were calling Mueller’s performance “frail,” “low energy,” and “a disappointment.” I thought it was daunting that he couldn’t remember meeting Rosenstein. He didn’t know the name of the president who appointed him. I was very surprised at some of his answers,” host Meghan McCain said Thursday on The View before Goldberg cut her off to say, “Give him an Oscar.”
“You think it was on purpose?” ABC’s legal analyst Dan Abrams said.
“Yes, I do,” Goldberg, 63, responded. “I don’t think he’s frail. Did he appear frail when he said: ‘Look, this is all I have to say, and this is what I said. I put it in the book. I’m not saying anything else. You can call me all you want. I’m not coming back. You made me come back. Oh, yeah. What? I’m sorry, what? Can you repeat the question?’ Look, give that man an Oscar.”
Abrams gave Goldberg an incredulous look before side-stepping her statement and saying he still had respect for the former special counsel.
Mueller, 74, went in front of both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees for hearings on his nearly two-year-long investigation into whether President Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with the Russian government.
Critics from both the Left and Right said the former special counsel looked frail and confused as he stuttered and stumbled through his House testimony.
