In the face of extraordinary and unprecedented vilification from the president, Mueller and his team kept their heads down, didn’t leak and managed to remain, from what we can tell, scrupulously fair and impartial. · Campaign chairman Paul Manafort had shared campaign polling data with a business associate linked to Russian intelligence. · Trump friend Roger Stone was in contact with WikiLeaks, which was used by Russian intelligence to release stolen Democratic Party emails. There are myriad other details in the Mueller report that may prove more damning than the bland summary Barr issued, even if they don’t change the conclusions. Trump infamously preferred the false denials of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the accurate assessment of the U.S. intelligence community.

Source: Washington Post March 25, 2019 15:22 UTC