SNL's Robert Mueller can't quite commit to collusion charges on The Bachelor
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Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon reprised her role as Special Counsel Robert Mueller, faced with the difficult task of admitting he can't quite commit to collusion charges against President Trump in the Russia probe.
Appearing on The Bachelor, Mueller explains to a distraught Becca K. (Cecily Strong) that he's "been struggling a little bit over the last few months just, like trying to figure this whole thing out and like grasp everything, and the reality is that I don't — I don't think that I can give you everything that you want right now, you know, and I think you sense that."
"So, what, you don't have Trump on collusion?" Becca replies. He does not, and he would really like America "to come together as a country right now and, like, stop hoping for things that might not happen." Watch the full sketch below. Bonnie Kristian
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
