Conclusion? No collusion! Mueller punts!

Now comes the payback. The American people have been lied to for two years. The whole "collusion with Russia" affair turns out to be pretty much a hoax. Hoaxes don't just occur by something like spontaneous combustion. Somebody started, somebody perpetuated it. Let them be found.

Comment from Blazing Cat Fur: There is a pall hanging over the left side of the internet today. The disappointment is palpable. How is this possible, they’re asking? We were so certain that the president of the United States was a traitor — that Hillary Clinton didn't lose the 2016 election because she was the worst candidate in modern history, but because Trump and the Russians worked together to steal it. It's like election night, November 2016, all over again.

Mueller comes down squarely astride the fence

Breaking news from America's capital: Attorney General William Barr‘s summary of the long-awaited report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller was made public this afternoon. It quotes Mr Mueller as saying that "while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." How about that...

Nearly two years and millions of dollars spent trying to find something for which to indict President Trump, and all Mr Mueller can say is that he declines to make a "traditional prosecutorial judgement" on allegations of obstruction of justice. Walt calls for a Special Investigation into this colossal waste of taxpayers' money. More later.