President Donald Trump has been gloating over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited final report for the Russia investigation, boasting on Twitter that it showed “No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.” And much of the right-wing media has been echoing that assertion. But conservative journalist Max Boot has a very different perspective, explaining in his Monday column for the Washington Post why he doesn’t see Mueller’s final report as a total vindication of Trump and his associates.
“Trump has gotten a big and unexpected political boost from the end of the Mueller investigation,” Boot asserts. “What he did not get was a clean bill of ethical health.”
Boot writes that although Mueller evidently concluded that the Trump campaign’s actions in 2016 “did not rise to the level of ‘conspiracy’ or ‘coordination’ with ‘the Russian government,’” there are still many reasons why Trump and his associates are hardly spotless.
View the complete March 25 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.