The obstruction conversation we should be having

Trump will weather any 'contempt of cop' prosecution Congress brings his way. Someone like Sandra Bland will not.

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed his report, and President Trump is happily crowing about it on Twitter. "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION," he wrote Sunday.

Not quite. As Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary noted, Mueller "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election." So no collusion, sure — but Mueller "did not draw a conclusion ... as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction," Barr said. That ambiguity has led to speculation that Mueller believes obstruction did occur and should be addressed by Congress even if the evidence is insufficient for criminal trial.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.