If the report released Thursday proved anything, it was that Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors had an extremely broad mandate to investigate all conceivable angles of the theory that Donald Trump and/or his associates colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
Using the most emphatic language available to a prosecutor working within the confines of his legal remit, Mueller concluded with virtual certainty: No. There was no collusion.
Due to an unspecified combination of Trump's angry tweets and Congressional Republicans' obstinacy, pundits cried that Mueller would be prevented from sifting through Trump's dirty real estate dealings - which would be the key to unlocking the door of collusion.
Mueller investigated the Trump Organization's engagement in 2013 and 2014 with a firm called the Crocus Group, a real estate conglomerate, to establish holdings in Russia long before the prospect of Trump assuming the presidency was even a twinkle in anyone's eye.
These dealings were studied in such granular detail that Mueller even describes the share of sales commissions that the Trump Organization would potentially reap from the deal, as well as the various machinations undertaken by Don Jr and Ivanka to broker it.
Mueller then reviewed in copious detail the actions of the notorious fixer Michael Cohen to intermediate between Trump and another Russian real estate conglomerate, I.C. Expert Investment Company, in service of establishing the infamous Trump Tower Moscow deal - about which Cohen admitted to lying under oath; he was subsequently charged with a felony.
Not only did Mueller aggressively pursue innumerable leads, he pursued some which were at most tangential, and had long fermented in speculative anti-Trump corners of the internet.
https://spectator.us/robert-mueller-avenue-collusion-myth/
Using the most emphatic language available to a prosecutor working within the confines of his legal remit, Mueller concluded with virtual certainty: No. There was no collusion.
Due to an unspecified combination of Trump's angry tweets and Congressional Republicans' obstinacy, pundits cried that Mueller would be prevented from sifting through Trump's dirty real estate dealings - which would be the key to unlocking the door of collusion.
Mueller investigated the Trump Organization's engagement in 2013 and 2014 with a firm called the Crocus Group, a real estate conglomerate, to establish holdings in Russia long before the prospect of Trump assuming the presidency was even a twinkle in anyone's eye.
These dealings were studied in such granular detail that Mueller even describes the share of sales commissions that the Trump Organization would potentially reap from the deal, as well as the various machinations undertaken by Don Jr and Ivanka to broker it.
Mueller then reviewed in copious detail the actions of the notorious fixer Michael Cohen to intermediate between Trump and another Russian real estate conglomerate, I.C. Expert Investment Company, in service of establishing the infamous Trump Tower Moscow deal - about which Cohen admitted to lying under oath; he was subsequently charged with a felony.
Not only did Mueller aggressively pursue innumerable leads, he pursued some which were at most tangential, and had long fermented in speculative anti-Trump corners of the internet.
https://spectator.us/robert-mueller-avenue-collusion-myth/
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