(CNN) President Donald Trump spent the last 18-plus months attacking the investigation into Russian interference and the possibility of collusion between his campaign and the Russians. "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," Barr wrote, quoting Mueller. Still, taken in the main, the conclusions of Mueller's report -- via Barr -- are a huge gift to a President who has spent 85% of his time in office with the Mueller probe hanging over his head. Trump called the probe a "witch hunt" more than 170 times, according to statistics maintained by CNN's own Marshall Cohen. Trump even went as far as to say the investigation was illegal (it wasn't).

Source: CNN March 24, 2019 21:33 UTC