The US president has gleefully welcomed the special counsel’s finding of no evidence of collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. However, as the Guardian’s Jon Swaine explains, there are several other ongoing investigations that could yet damage his presidency. Plus, Harriet Grant on the London playground segregating rich children from poor
President Donald Trump made no attempt to hide his delight at the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited investigation into allegations his campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election. He called it “Total EXONERATION”. However, while it appeared the report found no evidence of a conspiracy with Russia, it stopped some way short of completely exonerating the president or his associates.
Joining India Rakusen to discuss the Mueller report is the Guardian’s senior US reporter Jon Swaine. The investigation may have run its course, but its full contents have not been made public – and there are several other investigations into the president that are very much ongoing. However, for some of Trump’s opponents, the lack of any smoking-gun evidence tying Trump to a collusion conspiracy has come as a major blow.
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