Mueller report is blow to US Democrats' plans to probe Trump
Nothing impeachable found
Washington — Special counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion that US President Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia in the 2016 election is a serious blow to Democrats who had hoped Mueller's report would boost their own wide-ranging probes into Trump’s business dealings. Democrats promptly called for the release of Mueller's full report and noted that he did not exonerate Trump on the question of whether the president obstructed justice in trying to undermine investigations into the election campaign. Still, attorney-general William Barr’s summary of Mueller’s final report appeared to significantly reduce the risk of impeachment that had hovered over Trump almost since he took office on January 20 2017. “Bad day for those hoping the Mueller investigation would take President Trump down,” Republican senator Lindsey Graham observed. “It’s one of those hard realities that sometimes things don’t turn out the way you wanted them to,” said Democratic political consultant Colin...
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