Analysis: Get ready for Trump to spin the Mueller report
, making their way into the public domain through authorized release, congressional dump and just plain old leaking.If he's exonerated, he'll be the first to yell"NO COLLUSION!" from the Twitter mountaintop and from campaign rallies in the valleys of the Midwest.
Trump may do that even if the report casts brutal aspersions on his activities and those of his family and friends — or if it delivers a mixed bag of reasons that special counsel Robert Mueller declined to prosecute certain individuals in the Trump orbit.The bottom line for him, and for GOP voters, is that Mueller didn't file charges against him.
The only way to get answers, she said, is if Attorney General William Barr turns everything over. Even then, she added,"Trump would do well to remember the 'collusion' is not the only crime in the federal code and that there are ongoing investigations, including of his inauguration, his businesses and his foundation, in multiple jurisdictions — he is still 'Individual 1' in a [Southern District of New York] indictment.
It's hard to imagine the report won't be made public — and soon. If not, Trump's re-election campaign would undoubtedly be hamstrung by the kind of questions that dogged Hillary Clinton about her e-mails in the 2016 campaign.
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