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We're still analyzing the Mueller report, but we'll thread what we know so far and continue to add as we learn more wapo.st/2UlzFww
After Trump learned that Mueller had been appointed by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump slumped back in his chair, according to Sessions’s chief of staff. “Oh my God, this is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked,” Trump said. wapo.st/2ZkkPtZ 
Mueller makes it clear: Russia wanted to help the Trump campaign, and the Trump campaign was willing to take it.
The report paints a far less flattering picture for Trump than the attorney general has offered. wapo.st/2VRCkj2
The report paints a far less flattering picture for Trump than the attorney general has offered. wapo.st/2VRCkj2
Mueller’s team couldn’t rule out that Trump criminally obstructed justice.
The team members concluded they had to leave the decision to Congress about how to handle their evidence of Trump engaging in obstruction. wapo.st/2UJ3TPg
The team members concluded they had to leave the decision to Congress about how to handle their evidence of Trump engaging in obstruction. wapo.st/2UJ3TPg
Trump urged White House lawyer Donald McGahn to fire Mueller, according to the Mueller report. Then he pressured McGahn to deny it. wapo.st/2v8jZCE
It’s confirmed: The Trump campaign pushed to obtain Hillary Clinton’s private emails. The president “made this request repeatedly” during the campaign, former national security adviser Michael Flynn told Mueller. wapo.st/2KL6CTr
“Substantial evidence” corroborates James Comey’s recollection that Trump shooed people out of the room in February 2017 before pressuring the former FBI director to let Michael Flynn off easy, the report found wapo.st/2UFYDvw
