Effects of the Mueller Report

Political pundits are in agreement that President Trump and Republicans will use the outcome of the Mueller investigation as a cudgel in the 2020 election. In fact, that assault has already begun. It includes Mr. Trump’s vitriolic outburst calling the investigation a failed “illegal takedown “, Sara Sanders’ claim that the Democrats wasted two years and millions of dollars and Sen. Lindsay Graham’s call for an investigation of the investigators and renewed pursuit of Hillary Clinton.
The obvious response to these incredulous contentions is that the Mueller investigation was initiated by a Trump appointee, Ass’t. AG Rob Rosenstein after Republican James Comey was fired as FBI Director for looking into Russia-Trump campaign ties and was led by lifelong Republican Robert Mueller.
While Democrats had an obvious rooting interest in Mueller’s inquiry and did what they could to protect his tenure, it turns truth on its head to claim that the whole exercise and its costs are, somehow, attributable to Democrats.
Furthermore, to characterize as a waste of time and money an investigation which conclusively proved that the Russians had seriously interfered in our election and which brought to justice a clutch of high ranking Trump campaign and administration officials for criminal misconduct, is perverted and dishonest.
Presumably, we will learn, in the days to come, the details of Mueller’s findings, the full scope of disclosures made by Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates and others, and of the actions taken by other investigative bodies including federal and state prosecutors and Congressional committees. And we will learn whether a true waste of time and money will be incurred in pursuit of Sen. Graham’s fishing expeditions.
In the meantime Congress must act to protect our democracy from further incursions by Russian hackers and Bots into our next election.