For the past two years, our nation has waited to hear the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in our elections, obstruction of justice and possible conspiracy against the American people. That report has finally been released, and the results —even in their redacted form — are damning.
As Brookings Fellow Susan Hennessey and Lawfare’s managing editor Quinta Jurecic explain, the Mueller Report describes, “a candidate and a campaign aware of the existence of a plot by a hostile foreign government to criminally interfere in the U.S. election for the purpose of supporting that candidate’s side,” and outlines numerous attempts by the president to hinder a federal investigation with “ample evidence that at least a portion of that conduct met all the statutory elements of criminal obstruction of justice” (see also “10 Times Trump Might Have Obstructed Justice” in the Washington Examiner).