Noah Feldman, Columnist

Trump’s Collusion Nightmare Is Over

The summary of the Mueller report shows the president’s campaign didn’t close the loop as Russians tried to manipulate the election.

March 24, 2019 at 10:22 PM UTC

By Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

Reason to grin.
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The summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report submitted to Congress on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr can only be described as a significant win for President Donald Trump. Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign coordinated with or colluded with Russian efforts to subvert the 2016 election. And Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump himself committed obstruction of justice.

On top of that, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined separately that there isn’t enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction.