{"id":402204,"date":"2019-04-01T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T04:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-was-never-the-real-scandal\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T05:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T04:27:39","slug":"russia-was-never-the-real-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-was-never-the-real-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Was Never the Real Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph by Joshua Frank<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Robert Mueller won\u2019t be filing any more indictments related to the \u201cRussiagate\u201d investigation.<\/p>\n

Though the search unearthed ample evidence that Russia wanted<\/i> Trump to become president \u2014 and hints that some members of Trump World were perhaps aware of this \u2014 the recent summary declared no concrete findings that the two camps knowingly \u201ccolluded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president, naturally, is declaring victory. And his anti-Mueller attorney general is preemptively clearing the president of related obstruction charges, it seems.<\/p>\n

Of course, this won\u2019t end the president\u2019s legal troubles<\/a>. Lawsuits have piled up related to emoluments and sexual harassment. And legal and congressional inquiries into his taxes, business dealings, and possible campaign finance violations are, in various stages, underway.<\/p>\n

What it should end, however, is the incredibly naive belief that someone was going to wave a magic wand and make all this \u201cTrump stuff\u201d go away.<\/p>\n

This was a hope that \u201cthe system\u201d itself was fundamentally sound and would correct itself, expelling all this unpleasantness like a bad burrito. Trump himself cast the investigation as an effort to de-legitimize his electoral college victory, and this wasn\u2019t entirely incorrect.<\/p>\n

The thing is, evidence of much more serious \u201ccollusion\u201d \u2014 with corporations and the wealthy \u2014 has always been hiding in plain sight. Though these unique excesses of the Trump era have gotten some coverage, they were…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photograph by Joshua Frank Robert Mueller won\u2019t be filing any more indictments related to the \u201cRussiagate\u201d investigation. Though the search unearthed ample evidence that Russia wanted Trump to become president \u2014 and hints that some members of Trump World were perhaps aware of this \u2014 the recent summary declared no concrete findings that the two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}