It's about 400 pages long. It will have color-coded redactions. It doesn't prove that Trump obstructed justice, according to Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr. It's a "Complete and Total EXONERATION," according to Trump.
But according to multiple reports, people at the White House are seriously concerned about what the Mueller report, even in redacted and pre-spun form, will show when it's released to the public this Thursday.
The White House has been briefed on the Mueller report and "there is significant concern on the president's team about what will be in this report," and "what worries them most is what Don McGahn told the special counsel," @jonkarl reports on @ThisWeekABC https://t.co/2gNCrsGh2B pic.twitter.com/do39TZFBZz
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 14, 2019
Even if the report doesn't end up containing any bombshells about how Trump behaved behind the scenes toward Comey, Mueller, Putin, and others, it will hopefully answer THE question of the 2016 election: WTF was going on?
Or, more precisely: What did the Russian influence operation to confuse Americans and help Trump really look like?
Amazingly, more than two years after Trump won the White House, we still don't know. But an entire section of the Mueller report is allegedly devoted to this topic.
