"Not surprising Mueller did not show collusion. As he stated within the first page or two, he wasn't looking for collusion, but crimes that could be prosecuted."
Huh? He certainly was looking for collusion and who did it on our side. And theirs.
The order appointing me as Special Counsel directed our Office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. It also included investigating efforts to interfere with, or obstruct, the investigation.
That is the definition of collusion. He WAS looking for it, but didn't find it for the simple reason that there was none by Trump or members of his campaign. Whether it was illegal or not or prosecutable is beside the point. We needed to know what happened and what needed to be done to prevent future interferences. It was not only about any illegalities.
Mueller was testifying Wednesday for hours on Capitol Hill about his investigation into Russian interference, possible coordination by members of President Donald Trump's campaign and possible obstruction of justice by Trump himself.
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It seems clear to me that members of the Mueller investigating team took that order too far, once they found nothing to indicate any collusion on the part of the Trump campaign they went looking for anything else they could find and ended up with evidence of wrong-doing that was totally unconnected to their stated mission. And that is flat out wrong, they should not have used that authority to go after anything they could find. That investigation should have ended in it's 1st year IMHO; after that it became a political effort to damage Trump and his administration.