On Monday, special counsel John Durham released the final report from his investigation of the Trump-Russia probe — and after four years, nearly 500 interviews, two acquittals and at least $6.5 million in expenses, the American people should demand their money back.
Much of Durham’s details were outlined in a 2019 report by Michael Horowitz, then the Justice Department’s inspector general. Even Durham’s allegedly major bombshell — that the FBI should never have opened a probe into coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government — is contradicted in the report’s final few pages, where Durham concludes that the bureau should have opened a “preliminary investigation.”
Of course, the real point of the Durham investigation was never about discovering truth, but rather about muddying the waters around special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. That is why Durham’s investigation amounted to so little — and his report is so inconsequential: Mueller’s investigation was far from a hoax.
The Mueller report remains a singularly damning indictment of the former president.
More than four years after the release of the Mueller report, its conclusions about the breadth of Donald Trump’s breathtakingly unethical and criminal behavior have largely been flushed down the national memory hole. But contrary to the repeated claims of Trump and his enablers, the Mueller report didn’t exonerate the former president.
You don’t have to believe me. Here is Robert Mueller saying it under oath:
In May 2019, Mueller made it clear that if he and his team had “had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
They didn’t.
In fact, the Mueller report remains a singularly damning indictment of Trump. It highlights repeated instances when the former president and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination not only colluded with Russian…
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