The Trump Presidency is Over — Or the Rule of Law Is

The Mueller Report added an exclamation point to an unprecedented record of illiberalism.

On March 31, 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump and a group of his advisors got together at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. to discuss foreign policy. One of those advisors, George Papadopoulos, fresh-off a meeting with a Russian professor, told the group that Russian officials wanted to set up a meeting with Trump. A month later, Papadopoulos heard that Russians possessed “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, and top-Trump officials soon got word.

Did Trump or anyone surrounding him alert the FBI or otherwise seem concerned that a foreign adversary was seeking to smear one of our country’s presidential candidates? No. To the contrary, Trump’s Campaign continued seeking Russian help, pushed forward with potentially lucrative business deals in Russia, coordinated the release of that dirt for maximum political gain, shared secret campaign information with Russian operatives, and orchestrated a massive, illegal cover-up to shield it all from the public’s view.

That is the story of Robert Mueller’s 448 page report. Plan and simple. That it doesn’t fit Mueller’s narrow definition of a conspiracy is neither surprising nor important. It is collusion. It is a…