Enthusiasm for Russian help in a presidential campaign. Repeated attempts to thwart an investigation. Presidential praise for a mob lawyer. A White House willing to invent lies to protect the boss.

Such was the portrait painted by the 448-page Mueller report, released Thursday, that President Donald Trump is nevertheless attempting to describe as fully “exonerating” him.

Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team did not find enough evidence to charge anyone in Trump’s campaign with conspiring with Russia to steal Democratic emails to help Trump’s candidacy, but the report laid out example after example of Trump and his campaign encouraging Russian agents and related actors like WikiLeaks to help him win.

And while Mueller did not charge Trump with obstructing justice by trying to stop the investigation, he makes it clear that Trump was trying to do exactly that:

“Our investigation found multiple acts by the President that were capable of exerting undue influence over law enforcement investigations, including the Russian-interference and obstruction investigations. The incidents were often carried out through one-on-one meetings in which the President sought to use his official power outside of usual channels. These actions ranged from efforts to remove the Special Counsel and to reverse the effect of the Attorney General’s recusal; to the attempted use of official power to limit the scope of the investigation; to direct and indirect contacts with witnesses with the potential to influence their testimony. Viewing the acts collectively can help to illuminate their significance.”

Trump, his campaign and White House staff went into overdrive Thursday, returning to their oft-repeated claims of “no collusion” and “no obstruction” — despite facts laid out in the report to the contrary.

“As I have been saying all along, NO COLLUSION - NO OBSTRUCTION!” Trump tweeted two hours after the public release of Mueller’s redacted report.

“Never interfered, never refused to comply with the requests, lots of people went over there and testified, many documents produced,” top aide Kellyanne Conway told reporters in an impromptu news conference. “And that the Department of Justice has made very clear that every request they issued was actually responded to and fulfilled.”

The report itself, though, suggests the opposite. In it, Mueller states that Trump refused to sit for an interview in the investigation, and instead produced written answers that “on more than 30 occasions” claimed that he could not remember key events.

What’s more, far from “never” interfering, Mueller wrote that the only reason that Trump did not more effectively block the investigation was that some in his administration, such as fired FBI Director James Comey and former White House counsel Don McGhan, refused to obey Trump’s orders.

“The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests,” Mueller wrote.