Round to Trump

President of the United States Donald Trump dodged a bullet last week, after the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded no proof was found that the leader or anyone from his team conspired or colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential campaign, in which he prevailed over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

In U.S. legal language terms, “no proof found” signifies that the investigation did not find criminal activity by Trump, but neither did it exonerate him, an important nuance given that the leader is surely prepared to launch his reelection campaign for the 2020 election. Democrats are willing to call for the total release of the report to have all the elements of a trial or a window to permit discovery of some other strand of accusation.

Mueller has clearly left up in the air the obstruction of justice charge, resulting from money Trump supposedly paid to two women with whom he had sexual relations so they would not divulge their stories; although the leader himself, after becoming familiar with the summary of the report, said that it signified a total exoneration. In his opinion, Democrats are left without anything to try a political judgment against him.

But it is also probable that Mueller would not have insisted on the issue of obstruction of justice for a simple reason: If he did not prove the crime, how could he justify the obstruction? There are Democrats who think it is still possible.

Furthermore, it showed that Russia did interfere with the U.S. presidential campaign through “fake news,” disinformation and espionage campaigns, and divulgence of emails from Clinton’s team, and that a minimum of 32 people have been charged with various crimes, among them at least five of Trump’s inner circle, such as his former attorney, Michael Cohen, and his former campaign chief of staff, Paul Manafort, some with jail on the way. Sufficient for continued interest in knowing exactly what happened.

Also notable is the fact that during the 22-month investigation, Trump tried by all means possible to delegitimize and discredit Special Counsel Mueller, yet now praises Mueller’s behavior by saying that he acted the “honorable way,” in one of those turnarounds typical of such a celebrity president, similar to his call for an apology by the “progressive press” for what he called “unequal coverage” of the special prosecutor investigation. “They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE,” he trilled, very much in his style.

Greater than the Democratic vision, the Mueller report provides a unique recognition gradually clearing the path toward a bid for Trump’s reelection. Now it is up to Democrats to polish up and present a solid candidate from among the bunch of applicants of various tendencies and ages in search of a leadership that challenges the egotistic and unilateral style of the controversial magnate.