An enduring piece of Robert Mueller’s legacy will be the way he attempted to justify his political assassination on President Trump 1.0 — the 2017 “Russian interference” investigation — by not just saying that he found no crime committed by the president (he didn’t) but adding that the probe “also does not exonerate him.”
It isn’t the job of a special counsel to exonerate anyone. It’s also not his job to convict anyone. That gratuitous line in the conclusion of his money pit of an investigation served as nothing more than a lifeline for Democrats and the rabidly anti-American, anti-Trump media to maintain that they had every reason to continue calling the president a Russian agent, though they had none.
