Trump: Mueller report 'could not have been better'

President Trump speaks to the media as he arrives
for a Senate Republican policy lunch Tuesday.
(Photo: Susan Walsh/AP)

To hear Donald Trump tell it, even a “witch hunt” can have a happy ending.

On his way to a lunch with Republican senators Tuesday, Trump continued his celebration of the release of a summary of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller. Attorney General William Barr said the report concluded that Trump had not conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.

“The Mueller report was great,” the president said. “It could not have been better.”

Trump presumably was relying on secondhand accounts of the report, which as far as is known to the public has been seen only by Barr and other top officials in the Department of Justice.

Mueller’s investigation did result in the indictment of 34 Americans and Russians. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and his former campaign aides Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos have all been convicted.

By David Knowles.

Full story at Yahoo News.