Special counsel Robert Mueller's first and final statement on his investigation was based on the flawed premise "you're guilty until we prove you're innocent," according to House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga.
"He starts from the premise that, so interestingly, the wrong narrative from America that he's trying to take, is that we're proving innocence here and you're guilty until we prove you're innocent," Collins told "Fox News Sunday."
Rep. Collins pointed to Mueller's statement in the report he cannot conclude President Donald Trump did not commit a crime as a reversal of U.S. due process, and had they done so, "we would have said so."
"Instead of finding answers, we still find more questions," Rep. Collins told host Chris Wallace.
The Mueller investigation was always about impeachment for Democrats, Collins suggested.
"They've been wanting to impeach this president since November 2016," Collins said. "They've never liked him. They'd use any excuse to begin the impeachment process."
Collins ripped Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., for a willingness "to subpoena anything that moves," but doubts there will be a subpoena for Mueller.
"I don't believe he really wants to talk to Robert Mueller," Collins said. "It's better for [Nadler] to continue a narrative that Robert Mueller said things or implied things that he's trying to imply to the American people is impeachment.
". . . Nadler likes to continue the innuendo and doubt that has been placed, and also at the same point, Robert Mueller doesn't want to talk to Congress because he's going to get real questions about how the investigation was done [and] where it started."