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JUST IN: The redacted report has been posted on the DOJ's website bloom.bg/2ZmEXLO
MORE: Mueller said in his report he lacked confidence to clear Trump of obstruction of justice but suggested Congress could take action on at least 10 instances where the president sought to interfere with the probe
MORE: Mueller's investigation "identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign"
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared internal polling data and discussed campaign strategy with a known Russian agent, Mueller's report says
The Special Counsel investigated these instances of "potential issues of obstruction of justice" involving Trump
MORE: Trump encouraged Manafort not to cooperate with the government, and, at least in part, intended to influence the jury in the case, Mueller finds
WATCH: This is all 448 pages of the #MuellerReport, including both volumes
The probe found Russia worked to help elect Trump, but Mueller could not establish there was any agreement between the campaign and the Russian government to do so, despite numerous contacts with Trump officials
Former White House lawyer Don McGahn recalls Trump telling him that "Mueller has to go" and "you gotta do this. You gotta call Rod" with regards to directing Mueller's removal. McGahn said he spoke with Trump twice about the issue
The section on obstruction-of-justice principles concludes that the Special Counsel was unable to "draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct," and that the #MuellerReport "does not exonerate him"
Mueller's team couldn't get the full picture of some events because people had "deleted relevant communications" and used encrypted messaging apps.

Read more on the @business live blog here▶️bloom.bg/2XrTFzF
When former Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Trump that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President very angrily said this:
From the #MuellerReport's appendix, this is the original letter by then-acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, appointing Robert Mueller as Special Counsel
Mueller's report details how Russians used social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

📘Facebook is mentioned 81 times
🐦Twitter is mentioned 71 times
📸Instagram is mentioned 7 times
💻And Tumblr is in there once
Also from the appendix, this is a glossary of the key persons, entities, and organizations named in the #MuellerReport
📄Mueller's report says Trump's efforts to derail the investigation "were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders"
📬The report also concluded members of the Trump campaign repeatedly sought information on a cache of emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server, but found no coordinated effort with the Russians to do so
Of the Trump associates mentioned in Mueller's report:

▪️Michael Cohen is mentioned 800+ times
▪️Jared Kushner is mentioned 265 times
▪️Donald Trump Jr. is mentioned 237 times
▪️Steve Bannon is mentioned 144 times
After the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Sarah Sanders said the administration had heard from "countless" FBI employees who were dissatisfied with Comey.

Mueller's report says that comment "was not founded on anything." Sanders called it a "slip of the tongue"
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer released a joint statement saying that the #MuellerReport "appears to undercut" Attorney General Barr's conclusion that Trump didn't obstruct justice
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