MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How did WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group used as a conduit by Russian intelligence to distribute hacked emails, come to release a trove of documents just when Donald Trump’s candidacy seemed to need it most? Why did Trump’s campaign chief share internal polling data with a man tied to Russian intelligence? Did the president encourage his lawyer to lie to Congress? After nearly two years of work, investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller said they still don’t know. Mueller’s office probed deeply into Trump’s campaign and the frantic first months of his presidency, and produced a final report brimming with inside details. But its work left some of the inquiry’s most perplexing questions frustratingly unanswered. Mueller’s report revealed in staggering detail efforts by the Russian government to help Trump win the presidency, his campaign’s interest in benefiting from that effort, and a series of steps by Trump to thwart the investigations that followed. Prosecutors ultimately did not conclude that Trump had committed a crime.”
–Brad Heath, “Did Trump encourage Michael Cohen to lie? … And other mysteries the Mueller report didn’t resolve,” USA Today, April 20, 2019 12:29 pm