How Trump and Republicans in Congress Are Already Capitalizing on the Mueller Report

Mar 26, 2019, 11:48 AM

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly two-year probe into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election wasn't just a cloud over the White House, but the entire Republican Party. And when it started to lift, GOP lawmakers wasted no time taking a victory lap.

One of the first lawmakers to receive Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report was Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly two-year probe into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election wasn't just a cloud over the White House, but the entire Republican Party. And when it started to lift, GOP lawmakers wasted no time taking a victory lap. One of the first lawmakers to receive Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report was Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee.