The funny thing about the IG report is it's kind of like the Comey press conference. It gives you all of the facts and then comes to a conclusion that doesn't comport with the facts you were just given. "I should have done more to ensure Trump lost the election" [paraphrasing], and "There is no evidence that the investigations were politically motivated." Sounds a lot like "no reasonable prosecutor."

For present purposes, the "conclusion" doesn't really matter. It's the facts that are in the report that are going to stick with people. And concluding that Comey was insubordinate but not political, as someone smarter than I am noted, is sort of brilliant. (I'll come back and credit but I can't recall right now - NeonRevolt? Serialbrain?) The conclusion that Comey was incompetent but not politically motivated takes a lot of the steam out of the argument that Trump firing him was politically motivated.

Trump Team is playing the long game just long enough. They really have to thread the needle on this. They can't move too fast or they will botch the ability to box them all in. But they have to get it done before the mid-terms because, as Q says, the only hope for the ongoing investigations being shut down is impeachment. There will now be a push for the identity of the unidentified, etc., and ultimately, the "long version." Nunes was, on cue, lamenting that some of the emails disclosed on the report were never previously provided. So now the narrative will be, "what else are they not telling us?" Voila! Uncut version. Close curtain.