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Ken Starr Thinks Mueller May Be Exceeding His Mandate Because Ken Starr Is The King Of Irony

Ken Starr won't stop reminding the world that Ken Starr is a bad guy.

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Ken Starr is working hard out there to redeem one of the great injustices of the 90s. Not the deleterious impact of his prurient investigation into Bill Clinton’s side action, but the violence done to the concept of irony by Alanis Morissette’s Ironic. Rain on your wedding day is not ironic, it just sucks. Thankfully Ken Starr is here to make sure the next generation will never be confused about the definition of irony.

Starr just told Chris Cuomo that he thinks Robert Mueller may be overstepping his mandate in probing the Trump campaign’s Russia ties.

Gorgeous! Starr was hired to investigate a land deal and ended up forcing the United States Senate to weigh in on blowjobs. But, yeah, Mueller looking into the financial deals of those around Trump that may have rendered them prime candidates for influence-peddling or even targets of Russian extortion might be a gross overreach. The interview is fantastic. Time after time Starr makes a ridiculous claim and Cuomo recenters the discussion on reality and Starr backtracks like a madman.

But, seriously, there are Twilight Zone episodes less infested with irony than this guy’s life. Let’s recap how Starr reached the present nadir of his career. After wreaking havoc on American political institutions in his wildly strung-out investigation into Whitewater — an investigation that took detours into Vince Foster’s suicide before finally landing on Oval Office Oral — he went back into academia, ultimately landing at Baylor where he got shitcanned with extreme prejudice after Pepper Hamilton conducted an investigation and found Starr turned a repeated blind eye to horrifying evidence of systematic rape committed by his football team. That means he got fired for NOT investigating sexual misconduct allegations.

Just when that seemed like the most ironic twist on this guy’s life, he spoke at a Columbia Law event about… Title IX.

Now, because we have a special prosecutor and Archie Cox has the good fortune to be dead in this political moment, Starr is going to be the one to hit the talk shows as the resident expert on how investigations into presidencies work. And he has the chutzpah to use this opportunity on national television to suggest that Robert Mueller may be going outside his lane. Mario Kart respects lanes better than Ken Starr.

That’s the thing — say you believe Bob Mueller is exceeding his mandate and pursuing a witch hunt. You’d be wrong, but imagine that’s your stance. There’s still no reason on Earth to take insights from Ken Frigging Starr on the proper scope of an investigation. I’d say it was an embarrassment that CNN even gave this guy a forum on this subject, but as ironic performance art it’s too mesmerizing to criticize.

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Ken Starr is a bad human being and what the Pepper Hamilton report details that he did at Baylor should keep him sidelined from civil society forever. That he’s back and afforded the dignity of a legal expert in light of that report… well, that’s probably the greatest irony of all.

Here’s the interview cued up to where he starts questioning the scope of the investigation.

Ken Starr says Mueller may be overstepping his mandate [CNN]

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Ken Starr Completely Out At Baylor Law School
Ken Starr’s Defense Of His Baylor Tenure Is… Not Compelling

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HeadshotJoe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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