Konstantin Sonin: "Report of the special prosecutor of Müller"

“So, 400 pages of Müller’s Report” (on the investigation of a possible conspiracy of the election campaign of Trump and Russian agents) do not contain anything that would not be known, ”writes the economist and professor of the University of Chicago on his Facebook page.

“For Trump, he is politically unpleasant - and the“ Russian part ”shows the election campaign not in the best possible way (in particular, one of the reasons for the excuse is unprofessionalism), and“ part of the obstacle to justice ”looks more accusatory than the acquittal. The president tried to interfere, but his closest employees successfully blocked this. (The prosecutor himself declares in the report that he does not make decisions about whether he does not make decisions about whether he should not make decisions about whether he was worth it Make the charge.)

There are touching places. A Russian embassy, ​​two days after the victory of Trump, writes Email Hope Hicks (Trump press secretary) with congratulations from Putin from the address on Gmail. The employee of the Trumpovsky headquarters, to whom this letter was Pereslavno, forgot the name of the Russian ambassador and writes to Dmitry Simsu (the famous conservative political instructor of Russian origin - the son of the great lawyer Dina Kaminskaya, if anyone understands) to find out this name ... but in general, diplomacy is given - it can be seen as the Russian leadership is trying to find access to the new administration, but it turns out slowly and badly. In part, of course, this is a “self -shot” - because of all operations of Prigozhinsky Ira - the level of trust was extremely low.

Why it is interesting to read the report - it is very clearly visible how the American investigation and jurisprudence work. Everything is stated, on the one hand, extremely neatly, choosing words, and on the other - without special terminology, for the "general public". And whether there will be serious consequences - I think no.

“Russian intervention” has been proven (although it was not shown that this influenced the result), Wikileaks were discredited, but obviously there was no conspiracy. It cannot become better from this report, but it will not become much worse either. ”