In determining that Donald Trump did not engage in secret collusion with Russia, Robert Mueller may well have done Democrats a solid. Instead of going down the chimerical road of impeachment, they can focus on ousting him from office in 2020. At the same time, they can keep the base agitated with intimations that not everything was in the up and up with the manner in which William Barr and Rod Rosenstein presented the report’s findings.
Trump, who scored a big victory today, is already seeking to turn the tables on his accusers, accusing them of having pursued a witch-hunt that even Mueller couldn’t bring to a successful conclusion — ‘an illegal takedown that failed’ and ‘it’s a shame out country had to go through this.’ That failure may have had something to do with Paul Manafort’s refusal to cooperate with Mueller.
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