WASHINGTON—Special Counsel Robert Mueller has concluded the investigation that transfixed the United States, filing a widely anticipated report summarizing the findings of his two-year probe into the relationship between President Donald Trump’s election campaign and Russia.The contents of the report will not be revealed immediately. Mueller submitted the report to newly appointed Attorney General William Barr, who gets to decide how to proceed.Barr told members of Congress in a Friday letter that he may be able to inform them of Mueller’s “principal conclusions” by the weekend. In addition, he said he was “committed to as much transparency as possible” and that he would consult with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Mueller himself “to determine what other information from the report can be released to Congress and the public” according to the law and government policy.“The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course. The White House has not received or been briefed on the special counsel’s report,” said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.The investigation has produced criminal convictions of the president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, national security adviser Michael Flynn, and campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.It has not, however, proven that Trump or his campaign was directly involved in criminal Russian efforts to interfere in the election. The report could conceivably exonerate Trump of collusion allegations, lifting a three-year cloud of suspicion. It could alternately deepen his problems. Mueller was known to be investigating whether Trump committed obstruction of justice. And since Mueller’s team was famously secretive, it is not known what else he might have been probing that has not already been revealed throug ...
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