{"id":403025,"date":"2019-04-13T07:38:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T06:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-russiagate-and-fake-politics\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T07:38:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T06:38:54","slug":"mueller-russiagate-and-fake-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-russiagate-and-fake-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller, Russiagate, and Fake Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So the Mueller investigation is over. The official \u201cReport on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election\u201d has been written, and is in the hands of Attorney General William Barr, who has issued a summary of its findings. On the core mandate of the investigation, given to Special Counsel Mueller by Rod Rosenstein as Acting Attorney General in May of 2017\u2014to investigate \u201cany links and\/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump\u201d\u2014the takeaway conclusion stated in the Mueller report, as quoted in the Barr summary, is that \u201c[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.1\u201d<\/p>\n

In the footnote indicated at the end of that sentence, Barr further clarifies the comprehensive meaning of that conclusion, again quoting the Report\u2019s own words: \u201cIn assessing potential conspiracy charges, the Special Counsel also considered whether members of the Trump campaign \u2018coordinated\u2019 with Russian election interference activities. The Special Counsel defined \u2018coordination\u2019 as an \u2018agreement\u2014tacit or express\u2014between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barr restates the point of the cited conclusion from the Mueller Report a number of times: \u201cThe Special Counsel\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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