This conclusion is far from the full vindication that chants of “no collusion” imply, a fact driven home by the detailed factual record the Mueller report puts forward. In some cases, there was indeed a meeting of the minds between Trump campaign officials and Russia, just not in pursuit of a criminal objective. In others, members of the Trump campaign acted criminally—as evidenced by the guilty pleas and indictments that the Mueller team secured—but did so on their own. At times, these efforts even worked toward the same objective as the Russian government, but on seemingly parallel tracks as opposed to in coordination. None of this amounted to a criminal conspiracy that the Mueller team believed it could prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But the dense network of interactions, missed opportunities, and shared objectives between the Trump campaign and the Russian government remains profoundly disturbing.
What a joke!
This article is intended to obfuscate the Mueller report because Mueller addressed the fact that "collusion" was not a crime at all and was most analogous to "conspiracy" which in many penal codes actually was a felony crime. (It actually can be a felony to conspire to commit a misdemeanor.) Mueller’s report discusses a conspiracy and defines it and actually concludes they could not find such a conspiracy. The authors of this article’s, based purely on the summary finding in the report, and make no mistake, ~400 pages extracted from 1.5 million pieces of subpoenaed evidence, ~500 witnesses, and 2 years of investigation is a summary, are claiming to know the facts and and come to a reasoned conclusions], far better than the 19 lawyers, 40 investigators and many others who spent the two years reading the 1.5 million pages, questioning the 500 witnesses to write the 400 or so pages of why they came to their conclusions. . . These authors are truly arrogant and dumb.