How the Russians interfered in our election
What the Mueller report tells us
Reading the Mueller report is an eye-opening experience. With excruciating detail, he and his team make three things clear. First, that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election with the aim of helping elect Donald Trump. Second, that there were repeated contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russians dating from 2015 until after he took office. And third, that Trump intentionally obstructed efforts to uncover this election interference.
People will continue to debate whether the report cleared Trump of criminal conspiracy or not. For the latest argument on this issue you can look to George Stephanopoulos’s interview of Trump himself.
With all the debate about the President’s potential criminal liability, it seems we have forgotten the underlying crime, that our election was hacked, and the sacred foundation of our democracy was brought into question. As Mueller wrote, “[t]he Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” All Americans should…
