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Mueller report: top Democrats say Barr summary ‘raises as many questions as it answers’

My colleague David Smith has just published his latest report from Washington. I excerpted a little earlier and the full story is on the Guardian US front page online. In another portion, David points out that the Muller summary:

‘Leaves open the question of whether Trump obstructed justice by firing FBI director James Comey and drafting an incomplete explanation about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.

However, on the charge of collusion with Russia, which has hung over the White House and intrigued the world for two years, the president wascleared. Barr noted: “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

Donald Trump Jr, whose June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer was seen by many as collusion in plain sight, lamented “more than 2 years of non-stop conspiracy theories from CNN, MSNBC, Buzzfeed and the rest of the mainstream media, as well as daily lies and smears coming from Democrats in Washington”.

The Trump 2020 campaign sent out an email with the subject heading “COLLUSION HOAX!” and a video about what it described as “Democrats’ reckless, false charges”.

Brad Parscale, the campaign manager, offered a preview of how the president is likely to use the investigation during the election next year.

“Today marks the day that President Trump has been completely and fully vindicated by special counsel Robert Mueller, exposing the Russia collusion conspiracy theory for the sham that it always was and catching Democrats in an elaborate web of lies and deceit,” he said.’

There’s going to be no mercy from the White House and Trump’s shock troops, such as Rudy Giuliani, for the bulk of the mainstream media in the days ahead, you can be sure of that. It’s going to be hard-charging forward from all parties, however, and we at the Guardian will continue to report the facts and the reactions from both sides to unfolding news events.

First, let’s mention that what we’ve seen from the Mueller summary so far is that what thsi is not “absolute victory” for the president. Giuliani just told Fox News:

“I say this is a complete and absolute victory. I mean way beyond anybody could have expected a year ago with all this crazy fake news that’s going on. First of all absolutely no collusion by anyone in the Trump campaign. So you have to wonder why did this investigation start in the first place and why did we wait 40 million dollars? Second, no obstruction.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/mar/24/mueller-report-trump-collusion-russia-live-coverage-latest-news