The closing of the special counsel’s shop, its report to Attorney General William Barr and Barr’s instant analysis of that report for Congress allow the president to trumpet the fact that a two-year probe by one of the nation’s most experienced and respected prosecutors concluded that there was no discoverable collusion between the president’s campaign and the Russian internet trolls who set out to turn the 2016 election toward the eventual winner.
But the president may soon find that he misses having Robert Mueller to kick around, as committee chairs in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives — and other federal prosecutors — pick up the job of pulling on the many other threads that may yet unravel this administration.