'No exoneration' is the new version of 'the Iraq surge worked'

When the Mueller report was released Thursday, New York Times Never Trumper David Brooks wrote, “The Mueller report indicates that Trump was not colluding with Russia.” Brooks then wrote: “But it also shows that working relationships were beginning to be built, through networkers like Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Roger Stone. More important, it shows that many of the Trumpists, the Russians and the WikiLeaks crowd all understood that they were somehow adjacent actors in the same project.”

In other words, Trump might not have been guilty of the very thing most Democrats and the media insisted he was for two years, but his camp was still up to no good, and that’s what matters most.