Trump Readies for Aftermath of Still-Secret Mueller Probe Report
- President’s team has game-planned scenarios to respond
- Among options: demanding omissions, issuing a rebuttal
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President Donald Trump was on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as the moment he’d been awaiting 22 months for arrived: Robert Mueller had closed his Russia investigation and was planning no further indictments.
That development on Friday afternoon brought an end to an investigation that has weighed deeply on the president since the early months of his administration. But Trump has little control over what happens next, a difficult test for a famously impatient leader.