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[[File:Mueller Show Trials-Putin's Chef.png|right|350px|thumb|Actual Defense response to Mueller brief.<ref>https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1239694196677754881</ref>]]
[[File:Mueller Show Trials-Putin's Chef.png|right|350px|thumb|Actual Defense response to Mueller brief.<ref>https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1239694196677754881</ref>]]
:{{See also|Mueller show trials}}
:{{See also|Mueller show trials}}
At various points in the Mueller probe when Congressional hearings and public opinion have questioned the need for the investigation as [[Obama administration]] wrongdoing was uncovered, Mueller has issued "joke indictments" against Russian citizens and entities who will never stand trial in the United States.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/02/muellers-investigation-a-farce-files-joke-indictment-against-russian-trolls</ref>
At various points in the Mueller probe when Congressional hearings and public opinion questioned the need for the investigation as [[Obama administration]] wrongdoing was uncovered, Mueller issued "joke indictments" against Russian citizens and entities who will never stand trial in the United States.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/02/muellers-investigation-a-farce-files-joke-indictment-against-russian-trolls</ref>
Charges against [[Paul Manafort]] were wholly unrelated to Russia collusion.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/04/mueller-challenged-manafort-case-568935</ref> The investigation into Manafort, which had been terminated in 2014 with a finding of no wrongdoing, was reopened at the insistence of [[Eric Ciaramella]] while urging [[Ukrainian]] prosecutors to terminate an investigation into [[Hunter Biden]].<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion</ref>
Charges against [[Paul Manafort]] were wholly unrelated to Russia collusion.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/04/mueller-challenged-manafort-case-568935</ref> The investigation into Manafort, which had been terminated in 2014 with a finding of no wrongdoing, was reopened at the insistence of [[Eric Ciaramella]] while urging [[Ukrainian]] prosecutors to terminate an investigation into [[Hunter Biden]].<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion</ref>