Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Trump – again

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted, public report is nearly a week old, but the Democratic Party in Washington is still trying to figure out what to do. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and one of president Donald Trump’s most committed opponents in Congress, summed up the Democrats’ dilemma during a Sunday morning television interview. “I think what we are going to have to decide as a caucus is, what is the best thing for the country,” the California congressman said. 

That’s politician-speak for “we have no clue what to do with this 448-page tome. We’re still knocking our heads together and looking into it. Ask us in a few more weeks.”

The Mueller Report is a godsend to Democrats on Capitol Hill and across America. While it could have been a lot worse for Trump—Mueller didn’t find an election-year criminal conspiracy between the president, his campaign, or the Russian government, nor did he rule on obstruction of justice—the report is pretty terrible for Trump in terms of the narrative it helps create.