Sources: Mueller’s Final Report Will Be “Anti-Climactic”

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When special counsel Robert Mueller releases his final report about Russian involvement in the 2016 president election, it’s likely going to be “anti-climactic.”

ABC News’s chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl says that he has sources “interacting with” Mueller’s team—and they think that, ultimately, Mueller’s report is going to turn up very little incriminating evidence against President Trump.

What I am getting is that this is all building up to the Mueller report and raising expectations of a bombshell report,” Karl explained, on ABC’s This Week. “And there have been expectations that have been building, of course, for over a year on this. But people who are closest to what Mueller has been doing, interacting with the special counsel caution me that this report is almost certain to be anti-climactic.”

If you look at what the FBI was investigating in that New York Times report, you look at what they were investigating, Mueller did not go anywhere with that investigation,” he added. “He has been writing his report in real time through these indictments and we have seen nothing from Mueller on the central question of, was there any coordination, collusion, with the Russians in the effort to meddle in the elections? Or was there even any knowledge on the part of the president or anybody in his campaign with what the Russians were doing, there’s been no indication of that.

What we’ve certainly seen over and over again is the people around the president, first of all, have been willing to lie to investigators, and had their own dealings with Russians, had their own agendas with Russians,” Karl continued. “And Manafort was trying to get paid for his work on behalf of Ukraine. Flynn had his own dealings.”

But it is not added up to anything of the central question, again, was there anybody – was the Trump campaign aware of or coordinating with the Russians in their effort to meddle with the election,” he concluded. “So far there’s been nothing on that and I’m led to believe don’t expect there’s going to be any.”

Mueller has not yet released a date for his final report, but it’s expected to come sooner rather than later.

Adam Campbell is a former military brat, who grew up all over the world--but considers Milwaukee, WI, where he and his wife currently live, to be his home. He enjoys reporting the real news, without bias.