Analysis: The problem, Mitch McConnell, is specifically that not every case is closed
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 7 at 12:23 PM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would like to close the book on the Russia investigation.
“Regrettably,” he said, “the answer is pretty obvious.” So, with his speech, he hoped to “finally end this ‘Groundhog Day’ spectacle.” To that end, he offered a two-word summary, so potent in his view that his staff sent around a tease highlighting it beforehand. But it’s important to recognize what Mueller actually determined. It is not a blanket exoneration of Trump and his campaign as Trump likes to present it, but instead a failure to build a provable case. Two paragraphs later, the report makes this clear: “A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.”
McConnell’s not making a mistake here. He’s intentionally claiming that people on TV and on the other side of the aisle broadly made a claim that they didn’t make to state that the claim was already specifically rejected. There are likely no perfect investigations, but it’s worth noting how this erodes the “case closed” point: Mueller says his team couldn’t establish coordination on the boundaries set above, that a failure to establish that coordination doesn’t mean that there was no evidence of coordination and that it was unable to obtain other evidence that might have been important.
It’s absolutely true that Democrats see political value in pressing on this point. Trump’s political opponents are not much more pure in their search for truth than Trump is in his. But that’s beside the point. There still exist — and there will probably always exist — questions about how Trump’s campaign team interacted with Russian interests and what Trump’s role was, if any, in those interactions.
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