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Manafort colluded a bit. 
Just a bit: "The office did not identify evidence of a connection between Manafort's sharing polling data and Russia's interference in teh election..."
"The office determined that certain individuals associated with the Campaign lied to investigators about Campaign contacts with Russia and have taken other actions to interfere with the investigation."
"Accordingly, the Office concluded that the evidence was insufficient to prove that Sessions was willfully untruthful in his answers and thus insufficient to obtain or sustain a conviction for perjury or false statements."
Reince saves Trump from himself.
"Our investigation accordingly did not produce evidence that established that the President knew about Flynn's discussions of sanctions before the Department of Justice notified the White House of those discussions in late January 2017"
"The evidence does not establish that the president was trying to have McFarland lie."
"...the President affirmatively told Comey that if 'some satellite;' was involved in Russian election interference 'it would be good to find that out.'"
"Evidence indicates that the President was angered by both the existence of the Russia investigation and the public reporting that he was under investigation, which he knew was not true based on Comey's representations."
This would seem to affirm Barr's characterization of the president's frustration with the investigation.
"McGahn and Dhillon said the fact that neither Sessions nor Rosenstein objected to replacing Comey gave them peace of mind that the President's decision to fire Comey was not an attempt to obstruct justice."
"McGahn and Dhillon urged the President to permit Comey to resign, but the President was adamant that he be fired."
"The President then called Rosenstein directly and said he was watching Fox News, that the coverage had been great, and that he wanted Rosenstein to do a press conference. Rosenstein responded that this was not a good idea because if the press asked him, he would tell the truth..
"...that Comey's firing was not his idea."
"Firing Comey would qualify as an obstructive act if it had the natural and probable effect of interfering with or impeding the investigation... The anticipated effect of removing the FBI director, however, would not necessarily be to prevent or impede the FBI from continuing..."
"In addition, at the time the President fired Comey, evidence indicates the President knew that Flynn was still under criminal investigation and could potentially be prosecuted..."
"Other evidence, however, indicates that the President wanted to protect himself from an investigation into his campaign."
"Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels it ruins your presidency. It takes years and years and I won't be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me." - Trump
