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Here, Mueller! Mueller, heel!

By Madeline Fry Schultz

Published March 29, 2019 4:00am ET

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Here, Mueller! Mueller, heel! — Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee about his behind-the-scenes knowledge of Trump's activities, including possible criminal conduct, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. Cohen, a key witness in the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller, called the president a "racist," a "conman" and a "cheat." | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Mueller investigation has ended, but our cultural obsession with the special counsel has not.

Since he began looking into alleged Trumpian collusion with Russia 22 months ago, Robert Mueller has become an icon of the #Resistance. Never mind that he’s a Republican and an appointee of former President George W. Bush. He was the Left’s best chance at ousting President Trump, and that gave him immense prestige.

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