Friday Robert Mueller turned in his report to the Attorney General of the United States and the AG Barr released a statement advising the congress and the public of the report’s conclusions.

The big revelations are Mueller found no evidence supporting the accusation and concluded that Trump and his campaign did not coordinated with the Russian governments interference with out election and did not coordinate their campaign in general with Russia. The other major element Barr relayed to us was that Mueller came to no conclusion on the question of Trump’s innocence or guilt concerning accusations of obstruction of Justice.

Let’s take a quick look at both of these elements.

First off, I breathe a sigh of relief that Mueller did not find coordination. While I still think of Trump as corrupt it is good to know that he is not both corrupt and traitorous. Secondly, this adds support to the reports that Trump never actually intended to win the presidency. If he wanted to win and he was corrupt dealing and coordinating with Russia might have been a temptation he could not have resisted. That said it is clear that Russia and Putin, for they are the same thing, *wanted* Trump to win. They interfered in the primary and the general election seeking to have him become the next president. Perhaps because they believed he would be so inept that it would harm America on the world’s stage, perhaps because they felt he was easily manipulated, or perhaps because they thought that they had leverage due to his extensive and questionable dealing with Russia and it’s cadre of rich corrupt oligarchs. Any or all of these can be true without Trump ever truly wanting the office or working closely or at all with the Russians to win it. The opaqueness of his finances makes it impossible to be certain that powerful individuals do not have financial leverage on him. The fact of no electoral collusion does not free him of other dark suspicions.

Mueller apparently did not come to any conclusions on the issue of Trump and Obstruction of Justice and this is likely a good thing. Robert Mueller from everything I have read is a man who has served his nation well and honorably for decades and it is unlikely he would side step such a conclusion, one way or the other, lightly. Ultimately this issue comes down to the question of impeachment and that is a political question not a law enforcement one. By leaving the question unanswered Mueller has pushed into the only court with the legitimacy to deal with it, the political court and investigations by the legislative braches.

The fat lady has not sung and the opera continues.