Mueller report summary: Every detail in the explosive Trump-Russia investigation document

The Special Counsel found “evidence about the president’s actions and intent” that “prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred”

According to Mueller’s investigation, Donald Trump was not happy when the special counsel was appointed. 

After the news arrived, the president “slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my god, this is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f****d.’” 

The president then told his ex-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “How could you let this happen, Jeff?” and “You were supposed to protect me.” 

Journalist Victoria Gagliardo-Silver also notes that Carter Page, who was a Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor, had lived in Russia from 2003 and 2007.

After returning to the United States, the report states that Mr Page “became acquainted with two Russian intelligence agents, one of whom was later charged in 2015 with conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of Russia”. After travellling to Moscow in a personal capacity to deliver a speech at the New Economic School, Page drew in media attention for his pro-Russian foreign policy.

As a result, the Trump Campaign distanced itself from Mr Page, eventually removing him in September of 2016.

The Mueller report includes a redaction on page five about a person or entity who “forecast to senior Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.” 

Around that same time, Donald Trump was encouraging Russia to uncover her emails from a private server. 

Another large chunk of that portion is then redacted.

Prosecutors said there were dissatisfied with Donald Trump’s answers to their questions, calling his response “inadequate.” 

However, they stopped short of issuing a subpoena, saying it would likely set up a lengthy legal battle. They also said they had received enough intelligence from sources to draw “relevant factual conclusions on intent and credibility.” 

According to the report, Russia’s “social media campaign and the GRU hacking operations coincided with a series of contacts between Trump Campaign officials and individuals with ties to the Russian government.” 

The report concludes that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” 

Independent reporter Victoria Gagliardo-Silver notes the following: 

In July of 2016, WikiLeaks began to release the emails stolen by GRU hackers from the DNC.

The report states “On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks posted thousands of internal DNC documents revealing information about the Clinton Campaign. Within days, there was public reporting that US Intelligence agencies had “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the DNC.”

This resulted in a foreign government contacting the FBI about a May interaction with George Papadopoulos regarding a statement that “...the Russian government could assist the Trump campaign”.

From there, the FBI opened an investigation to explore potential coordination between individuals working on the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Russian contacts with the Trump campaign began with the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2015, according to the Mueller report. 

Mueller notes “the Trump Organisation pursued the project through at least June 2016, including by considering travel to Russia by Cohen and candidate Trump.”

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman admit in speaking to the Special Counsel’s office that his meeting with Konstantin Kilimnik, believed to have ties to Russian intelligence, was to discuss a “‘backdoor’ way for Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine.” 

The report notes the two “discussed the status of the Trump Campaign and Manafort’s strategy for winning Democratic votes in Midwestern states.” 

Manafort sharing internal polling data with Kilimnik continued “for some period of time after their August meeting.”

Independent reporter Lily Puckett notes the following: 

The section on Trump Campaign and the Dissemination of Hacked Materials begins with "The Trump Campaign showed interested in WikiLeaks's releases of hacked materials throughout the summer of 2016" and is mostly redacted from there, but shows scenes of Trump anxiously awaiting the release of Hillary Clinton's email, mentioned in a television interview by Julian Assange in June 2016. According to Rick Gates, "by the late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign was planing a press strategy, a communications campaign, and messaging based on the possible release of the Clinton emails by WikiLeaks.