On Friday Special counsel Robert Mueller wrapped up his almost two-year investigation into Donald Trump and Russia and sent his report to Attorney General Barr.

No details of Mueller’s report have been released yet, and it is not clear how soon the public will be able to see them.



The transmission of the report to Barr concludes an investigation that has resulted in the indictments of 34 people, infuriated the president and thrown the administration into chaos.

The long anticipated findings comes almost two years after Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”



To date, 34 people and three companies have been criminally charged in the sprawling probe, including Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen; former national security adviser Michael Flynn; former political adviser Roger Stone; former campaign chairman Paul Manafort; and numerous Russian nationals. There have been a number of guilty pleas and convictions, but none of the charges have directly accused anyone in Trump’s orbit of conspiring with the Russian intelligence operation to help Trump get elected in 2016.



According to DOJ guidelines, his confidential report to the attorney general is supposed to explain “the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the special counsel.”



The guidelines say, The attorney general is required to report Mueller’s findings to Congress “with an outline of the actions and the reasons for them,” but it’s unclear how long that may take.



Trump declined to sit for an interview with Mueller, his lawyers stated that they were concerned about a “perjury trap” — but he did submit written responses to Mueller’s questions in November.





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