“Seems we just get started and before you know it, comes the time we have to say
so long”

In Brief Public Statement Robert Mueller Very Definitely Does Not Let Trump Off The Hook

“If we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

The Special Counsel says a lot in a very short period of time. Mueller, at the Justice Department, begins and ends his 10-minute statement talking about Russia, specifically two different clandestine operations to interfere in the 2016 election. (Here’s a link to video of his entire statement. And here’s a link to a text version.) In fact, he seems to want his central message to be today that Russia interfered a lot, and not enough is being done by the U.S. government to fix it, and make sure they don’t get a free pass to repeat in 2020. While Mueller is very cool and on an even keel throughout, the fact that he book-ended his statement reminding people that a full 1/2 of his 448 page final report was about documenting Russian interference is in one way highly significant; in another way not significant at all.

Here’s Mueller talking about Russia: