Has the Mueller Report Changed Anything?

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<p><span>The Mueller investigation has been a two-year obsession for nearly everyone who cares about politics in America. For one side, the special counsel was a bête noire, a leader of a witch hunt; for the other, Mueller was a deus ex machina who would end the political disruptions of Trumpism. But the report received by Attorney General William Barr was highly ambivalent, neither indicting nor exonerating the President, and leaving to the A.G. to decide the crucial question of obstruction of justice. </span></p> <p><span>To weigh the consequences of the Mueller report, David Remnick sat down with the staff writers </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/masha-gessen"><span>Masha Gessen</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/susan-b-glasser"><span>Susan Glasser</span></a><span>. “Any other political figure of course would be glad that an investigation like this is over, and would want to move on as quickly as possible,” Glasser notes. “True to form, [Trump] is already talking about various vindictive moves, and ‘investigating the investigators.’ . . . It’s a strategy compatible with his overall approach of appealing to his supporters, and maximum divisiveness.” </span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>