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jason1637 said:

coolbeans said:

So, I'm not really sure just what kind of Hail Mary people are expecting at this point.  Emphasizing that this is a "redacted report" shouldn't really hold any water on its own, as virtually all reports of this magnitude do.  And, as someone who's begun reading it, there's a healthy amount of text to chew through.  The most heavily redacted part I've seen skimming through makes sense: investigating Russian hacking & dumping operations (i.e. investigations that are still ongoing).  Literally the central point of this investigation states early on that "...the investigation did not establish that members of The Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with The Russian government in its election interference activities."  

Even though the report established that there was no collusion there is still a lot of info that shows that people like Trump jr and Manafort were involved with wikileaks/russia in some form. Also there is a case to be made about obstruction of justice.

Depending on Muller testimony, we may see follow up investigations go down those lines.  If the Dems are going to be as bad as the GOP with Hillary, then this is just the beginning.  There is enough juice in there for them to go down the rabbit hole if they want.  Hell, it should be interesting if Julian Assange gets extradited to the US and give up some juicy tibbits.  Either way, since there is no smoking gun at the moment, there probably isn't enough to do anything with Trump but let him finish out his term and see what happens from there.  I personally just want it wrapped up with no BS in the middle.