Mueller Report

I'll be frank, I was a bit disappointed with the conclusions of the Mueller report, but I wasn't entirely surprised. I didn't think that the Trump campaign did any direct, and the key word is direct, colluding with the Russian government, but that doesn't change the fact that they sure as hell didn't do anything to stop the meddling that was so clearly done. They had a more passive role in this matter but that doesn't make them any more innocent. After the redacted version of the report was released, the president was quick to get in front of cameras and tout his supposed "exoneration", but I think that to say that was jumping the gun would be the understatement of the century. With this being such a vast and complex conundrum, I think to be able to boil it down into such a simplistic conclusion is all but impossible. I think that once we see the full report, we will see, as a nation, that the Trump administration was well aware of what was going on, but seeing as it was to their benefit, did absolutely nothing to stop it, which was completely unforgivable in my opinion. I mean, for Christ sake, it's a four hundred page report, and I sincerely doubt that the president read the whole thing in its entirety. I'm not saying I did either, but then again, that's not my job. I'm simply saying, as a citizen of this country with vested interest in the integrity of my government, I think that there is far more to the report than what can be inferred simply by looking over bits and pieces of it. I think that the president, as much as he may insist the contrary, is far from exonerated. I think that even he knows that his campaign wasn't completely on the up and up, and I think that in the future we will look back on this time in our nations history as the point when we realized that we can never truly trust in the integrity of our leadership. We will look back upon the Mueller investigation as one of the key points of the Trump administration that defined the political landscape of the time as a bleak and uncertain one. Truth be told, I never thought that the Mueller report would have brought down the president. I whole heartedly believe that no matter how damning the special consuls report may have been, Trump would have found a way to spin it in his favor and his supporters would eat up his words like they always do. If there's one thing that this whole ordeal has taught us, it's that if something is brewing on the campaign trail, as unethical as it may be, if it helps out the president, he will sit idly by and let it happen. He is a morally bankrupt man who wouldn't know ethics or morals if they bit him in the ass. Throughout his administration, I've learned that I can believe very little that he says, and to think that I can't trust the president of my country is a very bleak and disheartening concept.