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It’s Mueller time: Everyone is reacting (including top Utahns) to a report few have read

The long-anticipated report from special counsel Robert Mueller landed Thursday and this town, full of policy wonks, political activists and journalists, was obsessed. People gathered around office TVs to watch the unveiling. They pulled up the report on their iPhones on the bus and the train.

“No Collusion - No Obstruction!” President Donald Trump tweeted minutes after Attorney General William Barr described the report as absolute proof that there was no “collusion" between the president’s campaign and Russia.

Responded House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: Mueller's “report does not exonerate the President. Indeed, the report indicates that President Trump tried on multiple occasions to obstruct justice, only to be thwarted by advisors who knew better.