President Trump and Robert Mueller. BBC/AFP/Getty.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has ended his investigation into President Trump and Russian interference with the 2016 election with no further indictments or findings of collusion. BBC. The report has been delivered to Attorney General Robert Barr who will decided how much of it gets released to congress and the public. Barr also confirmed that there were no incidences of the Trump administration attempting to stop Robert Mueller from conducting his investigation. President Trump has long said that there was no collusion or interference with the Mueller investigation and is expected to welcome the end of it.
My Comment:
Well, it seems that this stupid investigation is finally over. 22 months and millions of dollars later and what does Mueller have to show for it? A bunch of people arrested on economic crimes unrelated to Russia, a few process crimes (NEVER TALK TO THE FBI UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES) and a bunch of Russian hackers indicted that will never see trial. Seems like a massive waste of time, money and effort.
It is also clear that the main thrust of the Democrats hopes with this investigation did not come to pass. No collusion with the Trump campaign and the Russians was ever found. Whatever the Russians did and didn't do in 2016, it wasn't coordinated with the Trump campaign. No proof of collusion was ever found by the special counsel.
Furthermore, the idea that Trump interfered with Mueller's investigation is dead as well. Mueller himself said that it didn't happen and there isn't going to be any charges in that area, even if they were legally possible, which they aren't. President Trump was well within his rights to end this investigation right when it started, but he didn't. My guess is that he knew he would be exonerated in the end. Doing so was the right call in the end as ending the Mueller investigation would have made him look guilty while letting it run its course has helped him in the end.
There is some question on when, if or how much of the report is going to be released. I am guessing the vast majority of it will be released, simply because President Trump wants it to come out. Some things might be redacted due to classification but other than that it will all come out. And even if the descion was made to not release the report, someone in congress would end up doing it anyways. We should be able to read the report soon.
It is still possible that damaging information could come out of the Mueller report, but I kind of doubt it. If there was any kind of smoking gun it would have leaked long before now. If there is anything, it will likely be a minor issue that is embarrassing at best and will be overblown in it's importance.
I do think that there should be a reckoning in the media after this report comes out. The media has been saying for years now that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and administration and Russia and now it has been confirmed that was a total lie. Their own man who they hyped for almost two years, Robert Mueller, has essentially cleared the President.
Is anyone in the media going to admit they got the story so wrong? Will there be retractions, corrections and apologies? Will people lose their jobs for lying so much about what happened? Probably not. But what should happen is that people should learn to not trust the media.
As for the Democrats, it's clear that they are screwed. They had been banking on the Mueller investigation to find something, anything, so they could justify impeaching the President. There is basically no way that can happen now and there will likely be little support from non-partisans for further investigations. If they were smart they would just drop everything now and focus on winning in 2020, but I can't see that happening. This is hugely embarrassing to them and they will likely try and spin it so it looks like President Trump is somehow corrupt.
In the end though, it's pretty clear that Trump was vindicated here. This long national nightmare is over and it looks like President Trump can go back to governing. There are still going to be fights over his policy but it's clear that the rest of his presidency is safe from enemy action. At the very least he is going to serve until the end of his term and he will likely be elected for a second term as well.
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