When
Robert Mueller appears Wednesday before two congressional committees, he will face questions from at least seven
Democratic lawmakers who have floated false claims about various aspects of the
Russia probe, all without issuing retractions once the stories were debunked.Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee such as Steve Cohen, Ted Lieu, and Sheila Jackson Lee have all circulated now-debunked reports that claimed former Trump lawyer
Michael Cohen visited Prague during the 2016 election.House Intelligence Committee
Democrats Mike Quigley and Jackie Speier pushed the fake story that former
Trump campaign chairman
Paul Manafort visited
WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.And Adam Schiff and Jackson Lee also jumped on a Jan. 17 story published by BuzzFeed that alleged Trump directed Cohen to lie to
Congress in 2017 about his work to build a
Trump Tower in Moscow. In a rare move, Mueller’s office issued a statement saying that the story was false.All of the lawmakers will be present Wednesday when Mueller appears before both the House Intelligence and House Judiciary Committees to discuss his investigation into whether the Trump campaign worked with the
Russian government to influence the 2016 election.During Mueller’s 22-month long investigation, Democratic lawmakers appeared frequently on cable TV and spoke out on
Twitter to seize on the latest development in Russiagate. Often, the stories the lawmakers circulated were later debunked by additional reporting, or by the Mueller report itself.Here is a non-exhaustive list of Democrats’ greatest flops:Steve Cohen, House Judiciary Committee