Robert Mueller’s long-awaited Russia report does not take a clear position on whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, according to a four-page summary of the special counsel’s findings released Sunday by Attorney General William Barr.
"The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Mueller wrote in the findings released Sunday by the Justice Department.
Transmission of the politically pivotal findings is expected to come via a letter to leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary committees. With congressional offices closed for the weekend, however, plans call for the hotly anticipated summary to be sent via email rather than through the hand-delivery approach that a small team of Justice Department officials carried out with Barr’s first letter on Friday.
Lurking in the background of Barr’s review are myriad subplots, including everything from the so-called Steele dossier — a collection of raw intelligence memos compiled by a former British spy that described a years-long Russian plot to cultivate Trump and propel him to the White House — to the now infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 involving a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and several top Trump campaign officials.
lame liars. If there was evidence of obstruction it would have been in the report keep trying to spin it it's about the only thing you people know how to do
This is absurd. We watched him fire or reassign the entire senior staff of the FBI, we know he and so many lied about connections with Russians and Trump Tower.... zero confidence in the Justice Department. Our institutions are crumbling.
If there was no crime there’s nothing to obstruct, you dweebs. Connect the dots.
Because there is nothing there! Barr and Rosenstein certainly took a clear position. Why did you forget to call that out? They go hand in hand. biasnews You left it out because that's the Left's only possible talking point.
I thought Muller was the best of the best but for me he proved that wrong as he didn’t do the basic things on the case, interview the Trumps and Kushner. For me such a best of the best failed Law 101. Or shall we now wonder what Trump has on Muller?
Im not buying it if true then tax payers just wasted 2 years of tax money and in 2020 trump will be re elected
If it were a Dem president they would have decided a clear violation occurred. But, with a Republican attorney general appointed by the Republican president the AG refuses to take a clear position on the president's obstruction of justice. Sad.
Soo....as for the “Obstruction of Justice” section, it sounds like Mueller is saying that trump is too stupid - or too craven/self-absorbed - to have formed the intent to obstruct justice. It’s going to be interesting to see the report & what got farmed out to other jurisdictions
To make it short on the letter, there was no collusion after 3 investigations. Politico not a good news source.
Barr is more corrupted than Trump.
So we should spend another $17 million on a second report that also said he didn’t do anything, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything!
The Nation doesn't need or deserve a summary! We need to see the complete report..!
Summary? I want to read the whole damn thing.
Totally a misleading headline on this tweet, too bad Politico leans so far left cannot be trusted!
The headline should be - NO COLLUSION!
the summary does though, and says that no obstruction has occurred. whew.
That's your headline? Here for the ratio.
Is that what you lead with? Well here Attorney General say no obstruction after looking at the facts. MuellerReport
ITS OVER. FAKE OFF
Poor crying liberals.
Just 4 pages? Feels to me that he has left a whole hell of alot out, that we as Americans need to see! Show full report!
Cover up by Trump. ReleaseTheFullReport or we take to the streets!
A Trump sycophant summarizes a report on his master. That he can’t state that the report finds Trump innocent of obstruction says it all
That’s your takeaway
Read the letter Attorney General William Barr sent to lawmakers here: