Russian lawmakers react to Mueller news
Across the globe, lawmakers in Russia's government are reacting to news of the investigation concluding.Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Russian senate, said in a transalted Facebook post Sunday night that the report "proved what Russians knew from the start: no collusion between Trump or his team with the Kremlin."
"There is no reason for us to celebrate it here in Russia - the accusations against us still stand. The 'celebration' takes place over there, in the U.S., among the pro-Trump part of the establishment. The rest are about to mourn," he added, saying it's been "two years of incessant lies."
"Two years of high-level politics built on the notion of collusion. Collusion that supposedly explained Trump's pro-Russia stance and that forced him to, effectively, take harsher measures towards Russia."
Aleksei Pushkov, a Senator in the Russian government, tweeted that "from the the very start" Mueller's investigation was "a biased, artificial, provocative, conspiratorial, designed-to-fuel-hatred towards Trump campaign. Its second goal was to demonize Russia and prevent any U.S. moves towards better relations with Moscow."
William Barr's letter to Congress and report highlights
