I guess not being hired to run her 2016 campaign after he did such a wonderful job of getting her the nomination in 2008 must have left a bitter taste in his mouth. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for why he’s now bashing Robert Mueller in an op-ed piece in The Hill.
Not only does he attack Mueller, he even attacks Hillary Clinton, complaining about the closing of the investigation into her emails:
At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the “matter,” but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a yearlong investigation of this won’t come down hard on former FBI Director and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn’t playing mahjong in a secret “no aides allowed” meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
He explicitly accuses Mueller of running a partisan investigation that must be “stopped” at all costs:
This process must now be stopped, preferably long before a vote in the Senate. Rather than a fair, limited and impartial investigation, the Mueller investigation became a partisan, open-ended inquisition that, by its precedent, is a threat to all those who ever want to participate in a national campaign or an administration again.
He closes this screed as follows:
Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.
Donald Trump was so pleased by Mark Penn’s “analysis” that he even quoted it in his most recent (as of this writing) Tweet: