The Mueller report is the latest Rorschach test for an increasingly skeptical American electorate. Depending on whether you are a consumer of Faux News and its ilk or liberal cable news shows on MSNBC or CNN, the impending release of Mueller's opus is either an exoneration or condemnation of the president*. Or perhaps it will be neither. Mueller, as we have been told numerous times is a "by the book" investigator who presumably stayed within the investigative lanes he was assigned. A previous report he wrote for the NFL on the domestic abuse case of Ray Rice was meticulous, but refused to indict the front office of wrongdoing in covering up Rice's behavior because of insufficient evidence. I have a feeling that unless he uncovered an e-mail from tRump to Putin thanking him for his assistance, he would again conclude there was not enough evidence to bring charges.
The report will be analyzed six ways from Sunday and digital forests will be cut to enable talking heads to proclaim the guilt or innocence of various players in this saga. Unfortunately, at the end of the day it will probably only confirm both sides in their chosen verdict.
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