The US Justice Department says they’ve reviewed the Mueller report, and say it’s conclusion is that there was no collusion between President Trump and the Russian government in the 2016 election. Minority Whip Steve Scalise celebrated the news, saying he’s glad the partisan witch hunt is now over.
“You had top Democrats going on national TV shows saying there would be indictments against the President and his family, saying that they had much more than strong evidence to show that there was collusion, and there was never any collusion.”
Democratic political consultant Mary-Patricia Wray says the report may be a political win for the President, but it doesn’t clear him of all wrong doing, and doesn’t explain why the Russian government actively worked to make sure Hillary Clinton did not become the Commander in Chief.
“I don’t think that any American thinks it is a waste of dollars to understand why a foreign government would want to buy our election.”
Wray made the comments on Talk Louisiana.
The 30 million dollar investigation took 674 days to conclude, and indicted 34 people, many of them close associates of the President, for a range of crimes including Tax Fraud and Obstruction, but Scalise says the core accusation of Russian collusion was nothing but a bad faith effort by Democrats to impeach the President.
“We knew that the claims had a lot of political, speculative motivations behind them, but we looked into it anyway and found no collusion within a few months, and yet the investigation kept going on.”‘
Wray says President Trump still faces a series of other inquiries into his finances, including an investigation by the District Attorney of Southern New York into potential tax evasion. The consultant says the Mueller Report shouldn’t excuse the President’s other misdeeds.
“Instead of focusing on the 16 to 20 other lines of inquiries that Congress still has out on the President, including use of his own finances, they are going to continue to point to this report because it distracts from the other, legitimate, concerns.”
Democratic Party leaders are calling on the Justice Department to release the full and unedited version of the report, and make it available for public consumption.
