The Mueller report is finally here and nobody who is currently pontificating about its contents has actually read the entire thing, myself included. The full document is well over 400 pages long and would, in a perfect world — or at least in a sane one — prompt several days of careful study before the analyses and reactions start flooding in. But we do not live in such a world. Opinions are formed in an instant. Narratives are crafted in minutes. And when those narratives are plainly false, it is necessary to combat them before they metastasize.
Overall, in very broad strokes, it appears that the report essentially vindicates Trump against the collusion claim, as Attorney General William Barr noted in his press conference to begin the day. Mueller says upfront that “the investigation did not establish” that Trump or anyone else with the campaign “conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.” Many details are provided about Russia’s efforts to interfere in our election, but no direct evidence links Trump to those efforts. Considering the fact that the Left has been shouting “collusion” for the past two years, this ought to be the headline. But, in the blink of an eye, the goal posts have been shifted. We are meant to forget about these past many months of “collusion” hysteria and instead pretend that the real issue is obstruction.
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