Even in its redacted form made public last week, the Mueller Report will give Democrats, who control the U.S. House of Representatives, more than enough political ammunition to conduct extensive investigations into the personal and business lives of president Donald Trump.
More activist Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claim the redacted report is enough to support grounds for impeaching Trump.
"Many know I take no pleasure in discussions of impeachment. I didn't campaign on it, & rarely discuss it unprompted," tweeted Ocasio-Cortez. "But the report squarely puts this on our doorstep."
Any impeachment will start in the House, but Trump's removal requires the support of the Republican-led Senate, which is impossible.
Mueller's 448-page report into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election revealed extensive details about Trump's efforts to thwart Mueller's probe, giving Democrats a massive trove of useful information they can use as they oversight Trump and probe his excesses.
It built a strong and wide-reaching case Trump had committed obstruction of justice but stopped short of concluding he had committed a crime. The report, however, did not exonerate Trump.
In the report, Mueller reminded Congress it has the power to address whether Trump violated the law on numerous occasions. Democrats are chomping at the bit to get at Trump and hold him accountable for his actions.
Mueller also noted, "numerous links" between the Russian government and Trump's campaign. He also said the president's team "expected it would benefit electorally from information was stolen and released through Russian efforts," referring to hacked Democratic emails Trump demanded the Russians find.
Unfortunately for Democrats, Mueller concluded there isn't enough evidence to establish Trump's campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Moscow. This, because the Department of Justice previously ruled a sitting president can't be indicted.
Mueller's report details how Trump tried to force Mueller's ouster, ordered members of his administration to publicly vouch for his innocence and offered a pardon to a former aide to try to prevent him from cooperating with the special counsel.
"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is large because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests," said the report.
The report also said Trump slumped back in his chair at the news of Mueller's appointment as Special Counsel and said, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked."
Mueller also enumerated "10 episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting these actions to elements of an obstruction offense."
