trump corruptly shut down the investigation, his associates stonewalled, said "no collusion!" 5000 times and then cleaned it up with a bunch of last minute pardons and this was - hilariously - legitimately good enough to brainwash a bunch of DC media elites into thinking there was nothing there.
Much like with Hillary’s transparency with her email stuff, versus trump’s taxes still being nonpublic, the very clear message was cover ups work and transparency is for sucker.
I’m still curious what the fuck happened with Muller. I thought he was supposed to be a badass and I know he found stuff. But the media and MAGA-verse and a surprising amount of Putin-adjacent far leftists handwave FD all that away.
I still occasionally think about that meeting in the Seychelles with Erik Prince and I think Steve Bannon where all of those texts disappeared and the Mueller Report was like "look, legally we can't really say anything one way or another but what do you *think* magically disappearing texts means"
I interpret "Less than they were hoping" as "the pee tape wasn't real," & having disproved the most lurid & unlikely bit Mr. Bennet is quite satisfied that he's proven then whole thing to be yet another leftist hoax, like "driving while black" or hygge