The witch hunt is officially over and all that is left is the public spectacle. Bob Mueller has turned in his report to Attorney General Bob Barr.
There is also a rumor that because the police are surrounding Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy, he will be arrested shortly and will be on a plane to America as soon as tonight. That has not been confirmed.
Bob Barr just did issue a memo saying he will possibly release the main findings to the public and Congress as soon as this weekend.
Look if it was bad for Trump, Don Jr and Kushner as they had the most exposure would be indicted. With no indictments or arrests this looks like to be one huge dud.
From NBC Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday wrapped up his nearly two-year investigation into Donald Trump and Russia and sent his report to Attorney General Barr.
No details of Mueller’s findings have been released, and it is not clear how soon the public will see them.
The transmission of the report to Barr concludes an investigation that has resulted in the indictments of 34 people, infuriated the president and thrown the administration into turmoil.
The long-awaited development comes almost two years after Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”
To date, 34 people and three companies have been criminally charged in the sprawling probe, including Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn; former campaign chairman Paul Manafort; former political adviser Roger Stone; former personal lawyer Michael Cohen; and numerous Russian nationals. There have been a number of guilty pleas and convictions — but none of the charges have directly accused anyone in Trump’s orbit of conspiring with the Russian intelligence operation to help Trump get elected in 2016.
It’s unclear how detailed Mueller’s report is, or when his conclusions may become public. According to Justice Department guidelines, his confidential report to the attorney general is supposed to explain “the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the special counsel.”
The attorney general is required to report Mueller’s findings to Congress “with an outline of the actions and the reasons for them,” the guidelines say, but it’s unclear how long that may take.
As the Mueller investigation picked up steam and various Trump associates were charged, the president increasingly went on the offensive, blasting it as a “witch hunt” and “a hoax,” calling Mueller’s investigators “angry Democrats” and singling out some who’d worked on the case. He labeled Cohen “a rat” for cooperating with investigators.
Trump refused to sit for an interview with Mueller — his lawyers said they were concerned about a “perjury trap” — but he did submit written responses to Mueller’s questions in November.
Mueller was appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017 — eight days after Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. Comey had been leading the investigation into Russian meddling and any possible Trump campaign involvement. The president initially said he’d canned Comey at the urging of Rosenstein and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but later told NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt it was his decision, and cited his frustration with the Russia probe.
“And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,” Trump told Holt.
