The Mueller report is out. That is the good part. It is also the bad part. After reading the summaries of Volume 1 and 2 of the report it is pretty evident the candidate Donald tRump viewed Russian interference in the 2016 elections as transactional event which benefitted him personally. To my mind, the most damning indictment of the president* is his and his campaign's failure to report Russian contacts to the FBI immediately. That he and his handlers accepted the help of a foreign adversary to subvert our democracy is reason enough to revile him and the republicans who continue to call the Mueller report an absolution. Chief among the culprits is William Barr, who could have released the report's summaries 26 days ago. If he had done that instead of issuing a 4 page memo, "summarizing the conclusions" of Mueller's summaries we would probably be in the midst of impeachment hearings by the House Judiciary Committee. Instead, Barr threw just enough shade on Mueller with the assistance of a presumably spineless Rod Rosenstein to allow Faux News, Limbaugh, Breitbart and others in the right wing media to spin the story as "old news".
Impeachment is the right thing to do, but the electoral consequences for democrats would probably be catastrophic if they choose that route. The aforementioned right wing media outlets would attack the process relentlessly and even fair minded citizens would probably conclude there is more smoke than fire in the charges. Realistically, the only way to convince tRump's base of his perfidy is an e-mail from him to Putin thanking him for his help. Even then, a depressingly large slice of our fellow citizens would probably applaud instead of condemn.
Democrats are left with the job of continuing to investigate the obvious corruption of this administration from now until election day in 2020 and hope they can show the average tRump voter how misplaced their loyalty actually is. I won't hold my breath waiting for this particular Godot.
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