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I’m trudging through the collusion section of the Mueller report, and it’s difficult to convey how unimpressed I am with it. For example, the Papadopoulos/Downer meeting, which we’re told sparked the *ENTIRE* 2016 anti-Trump investigaiton, is barely a footnote. pic.twitter.com/QeVzKqDHZx
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 18, 2019
Read the text of the Mueller report (NBC News)
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into Russian election interference was released publicly Thursday, with some redactions. [Read More]
The Bombshell In The Mueller Report Is Russia’s Social Media Campaign (The Federalist)
It’s over. The Mueller Report is upon us and it says what Attorney General William Barr said it would say. Nobody in the Trump campaign—in fact, no American citizen at all—colluded or conspired with the Russian government to impact the 2016 election. This is obviously good news for the country and a vindication for the president who has protested his innocence quite vociferously from the beginning.
But the findings of the report were not unalloyed good news. In one area, in particular, Mueller found deeply troubling activities from the Russians. The section on Russia’s informational campaign using social media to influence the election is damning and shocking. Much of the information it presents was already known, but seen summarized by Mueller, what they achieved was astounding. [Read More]
The Lesson of Mueller: An innocent man’s defense can look like a guilty man’s obstruction (The Hill)
Thousands of interviews and hundreds of subpoenas later, special counsel Robert Mueller broke his two-year Wizard of Oz-like silence on Thursday in the form of a 448-page report that formally dropped the curtain on the bad political musical we’ve come to know as the Russian collusion scandal.
Let the record reflect that Mueller wasted little time debunking the feigned electoral love affair between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump that so many Democrats and their allies in the news media sang to life. [Read More]
