Pictured: A Senate Judiciary Committee member holds a copy of the report by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller III. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing regarding the Department of Justice’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
Robert Mueller’s report represents a thorough, insightful and professional analysis of Russia’s interference with the 2016 presidential election. However, it was never intended to present the final word on whether President Donald Trump, his campaign aides and executive officials in the Trump administration engaged in illegal and criminal activities. The report marks an important but distinctly partial step. As made clear in the introduction to Volume 1: “A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.” New information will shed further light on whether Trump and other individuals pursued activities that placed their financial and political ambitions over the national interest and the need to protect our constitutional system.
The report provides extensive detail on what is called the Trump Moscow project. Between approximately Oct. 13, 2015, and Nov. 2, 2015, the Trump Organization (through its subsidiary Trump Acquisitions) completed a letter of intent for a Trump Moscow property. Signed by Trump for the Trump Organization, the letter was “intended to facilitate further discussions” in order to reach a mutually acceptable agreement. The letter contemplated an extensive development with residential, hotel, commercial and office components, calling for approximately 150 first class, luxury residential condominiums as well as one first class, luxury hotel consisting of approximately 15 floors and containing no fewer than 150 hotel rooms.
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