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Special counsel Robert Mueller released his report on President Trump and Russian involvement in the 2016 election to
Attorney General William Barr last month.<\/p>\n
Credit: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n
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A former DNC chairman from South Carolina says the end of the special counsel\u2019s inquiry into President Trump and Russian election interference is just the beginning for Democrats who want more answers as they head into the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Don Fowler, a seasoned political veteran and chair of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997, warns against a continued \u201clackadaisical attitude\u201d among Democrats.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is really serious stuff,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cThe future of our country depends on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
A four-page summary of the long-awaited report detailing the investigation into Russia\u2019s involvement in the 2016 election was released on March 24 by Attorney General William Barr. According to the summary, special counsel Robert Mueller found that the Trump campaign did not conspire or coordinate with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. Mueller did not provide a judgment on allegations of presidential obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe Democrats, and most of the media, were just foolish about not being more inquisitive and more insistent that full disclosure was not made, and that indeed the president himself should have testified before the Mueller commission,\u201d Fowler said.<\/p>\n
The summary has raised questions regarding the release of the full report and its potential implications for Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign. On Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee authorized its chairman to issue a subpoena for full public access to the unredacted report.<\/p>\n
Matt Moore, a former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, sees the report a political victory for the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think President Trump was strengthened by the report… The president said all along there was no collusion and there was no collusion,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n
Despite Trump\u2019s claims of total exoneration, Fowler believes that the report summary does not vindicates<\/span> the president. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know what was in that report. We have four pages from a 1,000-page document done by a direct employee of Trump,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cWe need a full and complete disclosure of this whole matter so the American public can make a judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n Fowler, who has taught political science at the University of South Carolina for more than 50 years, expects a \u201cprolonged political-judiciary fight\u201d and multiple court cases over public access to the complete Mueller report that will likely stretch into summer. He predicts that the full Mueller report and its forthcoming court cases will be a dominant issue for 2020 presidential candidates.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you were a playwright or writing a novel, you could hardly find better material than what\u2019s going on right now,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cThis is a lot more fun than policy. This is a lot more fun than what the GDP is or wage rate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 1″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MuellerWeb.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Don Fowler, former head of the Democratic National Committee, speaks about the potential implications of the Mueller report.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.20.1″ src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mueller-GX.jpg” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Carolina political leaders react to the Mueller report and its potential implications for presidential candidates in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":20077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[67,62],"tags":[726,727,723,725,372,724],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20017"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20078,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions\/20078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}