Chuck Ross on March 22, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report of the Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr, signaling the 22-month investigation into possible collusion involving the Trump campaign has come to an end.
Barr informed the four leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Friday that he had received the report from Mueller, and that he might provide details of the investigation’s “principal conclusions” to Congress “as soon as this weekend.”
Under regulations governing the special counsel’s investigations, the Justice Department is required to disclose to Congress whether the agency rebuffed any major investigative requests from the special counsel. But according to Barr, Mueller was never ordered to stand down on any major areas of inquiry.
“There were no such instances during the Special Counsel’s investigation,” Barr said.
Barr also said he plans to consult with Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to determine whether additional information from the report will be released to Congress or the public.
Notably, Mueller did not issue any additional indictment prior to submitting the report. The last indictment was issued Jan. 24 against Roger Stone, the longtime Trump confidant.
Critics of President Donald Trump had speculated that some of the Republican’s family members, including Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, could be indicted prior to the report being sent to the Justice Department.
Mueller indicted or obtained guilty pleas from a total of 34 individuals during the investigation, which began May 17, 2017.
Six Trump associates were either indicted or pleaded guilty in the probe, though none faced charges related to conspiracy with Russians.
Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, released Barr’s letter and said he expects the Mueller report to be made public “without delay.”
“After nearly two years, the special counsel has concluded his investigation, and I look forward to reviewing Attorney General Barr’s report carefully, when it becomes available. I fully expect the Justice Department to release the special counsel’s report to this committee and to the public without delay and to the maximum extent permitted by law,” Collins said in a statement.
This was a waste of our time and a waste of our money. It started with a fraudulent dossier that was never confirmed and turned from golden showers to collusion with Russia.
EXACTLY!!!! It’s time to pluck that goose…
I would say the news media brainwashed the Democrats
This could have ended more than a year ago. But Mueller dragged it out to entrap as many as possible. And do as much PR damage as possible.
But what does this have to do with AOC????
Sooooooooo!!!!
Time for the President to file charges of Treason and Sedition against all who participated in this joke.
They ALL should be investigated and charged. Obama should be deported back to his home country, WITHOUT getting ANY MORE taxpayer dollars.
Great like we didn’t know this, return all money back to the people, take it from the democrats.
it will never end. If Trump supporters are deplorable, then I’m not sure I can characterize DNC and Democrat supporters with a polite adjective. Let’s just say they’re badly confused.
OK, I was wrong. I thought Mueller would keep it going until after the next election. Maybe Barr leaned on him. Now it’s the Clinton’s term, and corruption there is public knowledge, including giant payoffs to the Clinton Foundation and the Clintons, personally, all the result of Hillary’s much-advertised “reset with Russia”, which was a ploy to pull off a giant payday for her and her cronies.
If he is even on SPEAKING TERMS with Mueller, he should never have been appointed Attorney General!
You notice the conniving COMMUCRATS STOPPED talking about ‘Russian collusion” some time ago, and are NOW bloviating about “obstruction of justice?” Translation: They’ve got NOTHING. They never HAD anything–certainly not any evidence–much less PROOF–of ANY “Russian collusion by Pres Trump before or AFTER he was elected!
So now the House of Representatives will spend the NEXT two years “investigating” obstruction of justice and trying to, you should pardon the expression, “trump up” SOME kind of BS “crime” they can use as an excuse to impeach Pres. Trump.
Send in the clowns…. Don’t bother…they’re here…!?!?!
Good, now we will see that there was no collusion or obstruction on the part of the Trump campaign, and that this was nothing more the Democrats, DOJ and FBI undermining a duly elected President.
After two years it looks like President Trump has been exonerated. NOW it is time for the Clintons – Obama – or whoever the hell he really is – Lynch – Holder – Mueller – Comey – Rosenstein and many more to start sweating bullets. Turn about is fair play and like the old saying goes – “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
I hope our new AG Barr will follow the law and not let his friendship with Muller interfere with his judgment…