Many who are pro-impeachment or tend in that direction
concede that Mueller’s Volume I supports Trump’s repeated claim “No Collusion.” Trump and his friendly media
go so far as to say that the Trump Campaign was “exonerated” on collusion.
Not so. There is in the Mueller Report itself
evidence, summaries of evidence, and conclusions about evidence that strongly
support what we would ordinarily call “collusion” between Trump and the Trump
campaign on one side and agents or intermediaries of Russia or Wikileaks on the
other. In Mueller’s judgment, this evidence is insufficient to support a
prosecution under Justice Department guidelines for conspiracy or any other
crime in the collusion neighborhood. However, that is far from a conclusion
that there was in fact no collusion.