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Mueller’s Russia-Trump probe Comes To An End

Mueller’s Russia-Trump probe Comes To An End

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It’s finally over.

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump’s presidency, entangled Trump’s family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president’s closest associates.

The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks the end of Mueller’s probe but sets the stage for big public fights to come. The next steps are up to Trump’s attorney general, to Congress and, in all likelihood, federal courts.

The Justice Department said the report was delivered by a security officer Friday afternoon to the office of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and then it went to Attorney General William Barr. Word of the delivery triggered reactions across Washington, including Democrats’ demands that it be released publicly before long and Republicans’ contentions that it ended two years of wasted time and money.

Barr released a letter noting his plans to write his own account of Mueller’s findings. The White House released a statement saying it had not seen or been briefed on the special counsel’s document.

What happens next is “up to Attorney General Barr,” said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.

Barr said he could send his account to Congress quickly.

“I am reviewing the report and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend,” Barr said in his letter the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees. He pledged a commitment to transparency.

The attorney general said the Justice Department had not denied any request from the special counsel, something Barr would have been required to disclose to Congress to ensure there was no political inference in the independent probe.

With no details released at this point, it’s not known whether Mueller’s report answers the core questions of his investigation: Did Trump’s campaign collude with the Kremlin to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of the celebrity businessman? Also, did Trump take steps later, including by firing his FBI director, to obstruct the probe?

But the delivery of the report does mean the investigation has concluded without any public charges of a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, or of obstruction by the president. Mueller is not recommending any further indictments in the Russia probe, a Justice Department official confirmed Friday. That person, who described the document as “comprehensive,” was not authorized to discuss the probe and asked for anonymity.

It’s unclear what steps Mueller will take if he uncovered what he believes to be criminal wrongdoing by Trump, in light of Justice Department legal opinions that have held that sitting presidents may not be indicted.

The mere delivery of a confidential report set off immediate demands from Democrats for full release of Mueller’s findings.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declared it “imperative” to make the full report public.

The top congressional Democrats said, “The American people have a right to the truth.”

Democrats also expressed concern that Trump would try to get a “sneak preview” of the findings.

“The White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public,” they said in a joint statement.

Barr has said he wants to make as much public as possible, and any efforts to withhold details will prompt a tussle between the Justice Department and lawmakers who may subpoena Mueller and his investigators to testify before Congress. Such a move by Democrats would likely be vigorously contested by the Trump administration.

The conclusion of Mueller’s investigation does not remove legal peril for the president. Trump faces a separate Justice Department investigation in New York into hush money payments during the campaign to two women who say they had sex with him years before the election. He’s also been implicated in a potential campaign finance violation by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who says Trump asked him to arrange the transactions. Federal prosecutors, also in New York, have been investigating foreign contributions made to the president’s inaugural committee.

No matter the findings in Mueller’s report, the investigation has already illuminated Russia’s assault on the American political system, painted the Trump campaign as eager to exploit the release of hacked Democratic emails and exposed lies by Trump aides aimed at covering up their Russia-related contacts. Over the 21-month investigation, Mueller has brought charges against 34 people, including six aides and advisers to the president, and three companies.

The special counsel brought a sweeping indictment accusing Russian military intelligence officers of hacking Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign and other Democratic groups during the 2016 election. He charged another group of Russians with carrying out a large-scale social media disinformation campaign against the American political process that also sought to help Trump and hurt Clinton.

Closer to the president, Mueller secured convictions against a campaign chairman who cheated banks and dodged his taxes, a national security adviser who lied about his Russian contacts and a campaign aide who misled the FBI about his knowledge of stolen emails.

Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty in New York to campaign finance violations arising from the hush money payments and in the Mueller probe to lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal. Another Trump confidant, Roger Stone, is awaiting trial on charges that he lied about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails ultimately released by WikiLeaks. It’s unclear whether any of the aides who have been convicted, all of whom have pleaded guilty and cooperated with the investigators, might angle for a pardon. Trump has left open the idea of pardons.

Along the way, Trump lawyers and advisers repeatedly evolved their public defenses to deal with the onslaught of allegations from the investigation. Where once Trump and his aides had maintained that there were no connections between the campaign and Russia, by the end of the probe Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was routinely making the argument that even if the two sides did collude, it wasn’t necessarily a crime. The goalpost shifting reflected the administration’s challenge in adopting a singular narrative to fend off allegations.

Equally central to Mueller’s work is his inquiry into whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation. Since the special counsel’s appointment in May 2017, Trump has increasingly tried to undermine the probe by calling it a “witch hunt” and repeatedly proclaiming there was “NO COLLUSION” with Russia. But Trump also took certain acts as president that caught Mueller’s attention and have been scrutinized for possible obstruction.

One week before Mueller’s appointment, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, later saying he was thinking of “this Russia thing” at the time.

He mercilessly harangued Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing from the Russia investigation two months before Mueller was named special counsel, a move that left the president without a perceived loyalist atop the probe. And he helped draft a misleading statement on Air Force One as a Trump Tower meeting between his eldest son and a Kremlin-connected lawyer was about to become public.

The meeting itself became part of Mueller’s investigation, entangling Donald Trump Jr. in the probe. Mueller’s team also interviewed the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, multiple times.

Even as Trump blasted Mueller’s team, his White House and campaign produced thousands of documents for the special counsel, and dozens of his aides were interviewed. The president submitted written answers to Mueller regarding the Russia investigation, but he refused to be interviewed

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Comments 14

  1. Gerald Ladd says:
    2 years ago

    Hopefully Barr will start an investigation into Mue-liar. Oh wait, that won’t happen.

    Reply
  2. Gerald Ladd says:
    2 years ago

    LOL…now the DemonRATS will investigate the investigation!

    Reply
  3. Steve Tanner says:
    2 years ago

    So… what did this two year fishing trip cost American Tax Payers?? I think the last number I heard (late last Year) was $21,000,000 USD.

    I am well and truly disgusted with Democrats and RINO’s. Run these idiots off the Hill!!!

    Reply
  4. Thomas says:
    2 years ago

    The SCUM BAG WITCH HUNT SHOULD BE PUBLIC WE PAID THE SON OF A BITCH AND ALL HIS SLIMY LAWYERS IT REALY IS OUR. HE BASTrds most likely lied all the way through it anyway.

    Reply
  5. madmemere says:
    2 years ago

    So, “It ain’t over till it’s over??”

    Reply
  6. James says:
    2 years ago

    In the event that no collusion is found, how do WE THE PEOPLE go about filing a class action suit against Mueller and his co-conspirators? These people need to pay for the waste of tax payer funds which was based on what they all knew was a fake dossier.

    Reply
  7. kenneth says:
    2 years ago

    i think the american people got ripped off for $25 million and cnn should pay for the mueller report. we thank you cnn for stepping up and paying for a copy of the report, because if the american citizen had to pay for it we better get a printed copy in the u.s. mail. we thank you cnn for picking up the tab.

    Reply
  8. Mary O’Connell says:
    2 years ago

    This whole investigation was a waste of time and tax-payers’ money! Mueller should be investigated! So should President Obama and Hillary Clinton!

    Reply
  9. James bradwsy says:
    2 years ago

    It’s damn funny the dems want a full report saying the American people want the truth! Fine we want the damn truth on Benghazi as well as crooked Clinton’s e mail breach as well as the fake democrat investigations of Justice Kavanaugh ! The dems have wasted literally millions and when the truth comes out on it all, the Democratic Party needs to be held accountable and all tax payer money refunded by them

    Reply
  10. GySgt. Lew says:
    2 years ago

    When are the Democrats and Mueller going to be Investigated??? The American People should be told……..

    Reply
  11. eyeball says:
    2 years ago

    About 2000 years ago, a good and truthful person was executed for DOING GOOD. He was murdered by a CABAL who hated His honesty and transparency. When we Americans look at that occurrence, we VOW never to allow that kind of thing to happen, EVER! But, WHAT JUST HAPPENED! O.K, shout, “But Trump is NOT Jesus!” So? What’s your point? This whole thing was organized by evil people who want to CONTROL American Citizens, have WORLD POWER, and gain immeasurable wealth at the expense of “The Deplorables”, who go to work, love our families, worship God and are thus DESPISED by “The Left”! No….President Trump is NOT Jesus. But he represents ME and mine, and gives me HOPE! Just as Jesus did for the “Deplorables” of 2000 years ago. God Bless America! God Save President Trump! MAGA!

    Reply
  12. Kathleen Williams says:
    2 years ago

    Mueller should be responsible for the mess caused then he only went after Trump side He never saw the wrong on the opposite side. THAT’S not justice.

    Reply
  13. Marc says:
    2 years ago

    Komrad Mueller has been a life-long Marxist; for example, he refused President Bush’s request in the aftermath of the original jihadist murder in New Jersey to establish a tracking program for recently arrived probable jihadists – stating that such a program “would be unAmerican”. There followed the mass murders of Americans committed by Muslim jihadists in New York, Florida, South Carolina, San Bernardino…

    Reply
  14. Marc says:
    2 years ago

    Asking that life-long Marxist Mueller to judge the legitimacy of Trump’s electoral victory is like asking the British Communist Party to judge the legitimacy of Churchill’s electoral victory back in 1940.

    Reply

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