The investigation into Russia's affair with US President Donald Trump took nearly two years. Special investigator Robert Mueller has now finished his investigation and handed over his confidential final report to the Ministry of Justice. Details of the document have not yet been leaked to the public. Nevertheless, the Mueller report determines the headlines of the US media.
The New York Times described the report as "Trump's Trial and the System". After several years of investigation now was the moment for a settlement. This, of course, refers to Trump. At the same time, however, Mueller, the congress, the Democrats, the Republicans and the media, and indeed the entire system, must also be billed. The delivery of the investigation report marks a "turning point that will shape the remainder of Trump's presidency and put the functionality of the US government to the test".
Washington has been waiting so long for the investigation results and so much has been invested in the investigation that Mueller's findings may now be behind the expectations, it continues in the "New York Times". Once the report is published, it will change the political landscape and fuel calls for the President to be ousted - "or provide substance to the President to defend himself," he said. A shadow on Trump's presidency throw the investigation in any case. Finally, she has shown that Russia tried to influence the presidential election in Trump's favor.
Something similar writes the "Washington Post" . The newspaper summarizes the developments so far in the Russia affair. In any case, the Mueller report makes clear that Trump's campaign team was not disturbed by the attacks of a foreign opponent on the US system. And in the 2016 election campaign, it was willing to accept this help.
The CNN channel also assumes that the Mueller report will have a lasting effect. And "immense political and constitutional consequences" could entail. The investigation itself is already groundbreaking. Finally, it shows that it is possible "to subject explosive allegations against a unleashed president to credible legal scrutiny - without interferences and despite a bitter polarization of times".
Fox News , Trump's home channel, sees things differently. There the report of Mueller is called unbelievable. The process of investigations and the team around the Special Investigator had been flawed from the beginning. In another report, Fox News writes of a "collective shock of mainstream media." The commentators of several broadcasters would therefore obviously have been unable to grasp that the special investigator Mueller should not have pronounced for further charges. This is interpreted by Fox News and the Trump administration as a positive development for the president. At a presenter who commented on the matter, Fox News claims to have recognized that she had to hold back her tears.