Trump, completely innocent.
“I’M F---ED”: TRUMP FELT MUELLER APPOINTMENT WOULD BE “END OF MY PRESIDENCY”
The report says McGahn decided to resign after Trump told him “Mueller has to go" — a request McGahn told colleagues was "crazy shit" (my personal favorite)
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
Mueller wrote in his report that only five hours later, members of a key Russian intelligence unit “targeted for the first time Clinton’s personal office.
Mueller wrote in the report that Trump’s written responses to his team’s questions were “incomplete or imprecise” and, on the whole, “inadequate.”
Nevertheless, Mueller said he declined to subpoena the president after having “weighed the costs of potentially lengthy constitutional litigation, with resulting delay in finishing our investigation, against the anticipated benefits for our investigation and report.”
In a section that had been previewed by Barr weeks earlier, Mueller wrote in his conclusion that his report does not draw “ultimate conclusions” about Trump’s conduct, due to "the facts and the applicable legal standards."
A key passage in the Mueller report makes clear that Trump had made efforts to affect the Russia investigation, but that they were “mostly unsuccessful” largely because top players surrounding Trump — including then-FBI Director James Comey, then-White House Counsel Don McGahn and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — didn’t follow his requests.
Amid increasing — and increasingly fierce — attacks from Trump, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided that he should be prepared to resign his post at any time. So, in late July 2017, after another dressing down from Trump, Sessions prepared a resignation letter “and for the rest of the year carried it with him in his pocket every time he went to the White House.”
After Trump said in July 2016 that he hoped Russia would “find the 30,000 emails that are missing," the then-candidate asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails.
Future national security adviser Michael Flynn charged “multiple” campaign supporters — Barbara Ledeen and Peter Smith — to help find them.
Mueller’s report said no one ever gained access to the emails.