Robert Mueller handed over Results of the Trump-Russia Investigation to the attorney General today. Trump asks for the full document to be made public.
Special counsel Robert Mueller presented his long-awaited report to the Justice Department on Friday, ending his nearly two-year investigation that has roiled the Trump presidency and likely setting up a battle with Congress over what he has found.
No details from the report on the investigation, which examined Trump campaign connections to Russian election interference and whether the president himself tried to obstruct justice, were immediately made public. Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to Congress that he may advise lawmakers of any conclusions from the report “as soon as this weekend.”
Mr. Barr has previously said he would bring as much transparency as possible to Mr. Mueller’s findings but stressed that Justice Department policy prevents officials from disclosing much about investigations that didn’t yield criminal charges. That means a swath of Mr. Mueller’s probe—especially as it relates to President Trump—may not be revealed any time soon.
The wide-ranging inquiry yielded criminal charges against 34 people and the convictions of five Trump advisers, including his former campaign chairman, his first national-security adviser and his personal lawyer, several of whom admitted to lying about contacts they had with Russians before Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
But the special counsel hasn’t made public any of his investigation as it relates directly to the president, who answered a series of written questions, setting up what are likely to be protracted disputes with congressional Democrats over access to all of the evidence Mr. Mueller compiled, even if it didn’t lead to any action.
Barr will likely spend the coming days combing through the report for information protected by grand-jury secrecy and other classified information, and assembling his own, abridged version to provide to Congress.
Make it Public
Reporter: How confident are you that we’re going to get the full depth of that [Mueller] report with a Trump appointed attorney general?
Schumer: I think the demand of the public is overwhelming to see the report… Public pressure will force it to be pic.twitter.com/L2rYShXeBk
— POLITICO (@politico) March 22, 2019
The Financial Times offered this snip.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump told reporters he was happy for it to be published. “Let it come out. Let people see it,” he said.
Indeed. And it should be easy enough. Trump has authority to declassify anything.
The only thing possibly worth redacting is investigations into others who were not charged.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
We know nothing about what’s in that report until it’s released. Don’t be dumb.
The real objective of the Mueller “investigation” was to bury the criminal activity of HRC, BO’s DoJ & the FBI.
The open-season slander vs. Trump for 3+ years was just a ‘bonus’. Dems consider all of this a “win”… their cynical, contemptible heroine & her bathroom server are safe, and the MSM’s funeral was forestalled a little while longer… that’s the Prog logic here. Of course, they are oblivious to the fact that their bed-wetting behavior has cost them yet another election. They will convince themselves that it was all “worth it”, because feelings+tantrums > facts+reason.
The Left is toast. They cannot stop sabotaging themselves.
I despise Trump and all his political enemies, friends and family. I consider Washington DC to be the center of evil in the world. Let them all destroy each other.
Trump and his inner never colluded with Russia. It’s all on Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller and everyone else that’s connected with Hillary’s inner circle and that mess with the collusion of our enemies.
Of course Trump never colluded with Russia to interfere with the election. How could he when Russian never interfered with the election in the first place?
Russia is NOT our enemy. They do not want war with US. They have not attacked US. Their military actions in Georgia and Ukraine were purely defensive and, in the case of Georgia at least, highly moral. Trump is accused of colluding with them because he praised them for fighting ISIS in Syria. He didn’t know that his son-in-law’s friend, Bibi, supported ISIS.
Nor could Russia be a threat even if it desired war. Russia’s population is about 145m vs NATO’s 900m+. Russia’s GDP is under $2 trillion vs NATO’s $38 trillion. As Putin has said, only in a madman’s dream would Russia attack NATO.
Russia also has a long and easily penetrable border through which armies from its west have invaded several times. Russia lost 20m people during WWII which about 20x as much as the US lost in ALL its wars. Russia does NOT want war.
But if you want peace, you must prepare for war, as the Romans said. If NATO or the US attacks them with any kind of weapons, it’s all over. Russia will not allow allow US to Libyanize them without resorting to the unthinkable.
Mueller, what no indictments? Impossible! CNN will now switch to the truth from Comey and Brennan. Russia, Russia, Russia !!! Mueller is incompetent or was handcuffed by Trump in his search for the truth?
Maybe Putin colluded with Mueller to hide the truth!
We need another special counsel!
The Hobgoblins did it. They always do. And you need “us” to protect you from them
Mueller’s hands are tied because it was him and not Trump that colluded with Ukraine.
2.5 years and $40 million wasted.
No collusion. No obstruction.
And now a precedent for every new president elect. Constant investigation of every facet of their lives from the day they take office. Destruction of anyone who may have worked for them on decades old charges. Then have a “friendly” state conduct double jeopardy charges.
And ignore those who politically connected.
And we wonder why America has become hyper-partisan.
It’s a precedent for outsiders only. Hillary, Jeb, Rubio, or Cruz would not have faced such an investigation, but Bernie would have.
For 2020, Kamala, Booker, or Beto would be exempt, but Tulsi would be investigated. American politics have gotten way out of hand and hardly anyone lifted a finger to stop this. In fact, it was a clear bipartisan effort to make it this way.
Too bad Trump turned out to be such a dud for an outsider. The Fed has already sealed our fate anyway, but a resistance movement would have been nice.
Constant investigations are a fact of life in all totalitarian dystopias. America wouldn’t be properly dystopian without them.
Plus, it provides publicity, as well as CV decoration, for the class of ambulance chasers and other negative-value-add leeches the once-was country is now ran for the exclusive benefit of.