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>The only thing the muller report found was trump obstructed the investigation, it completely exonerated any supposed connections to russia.

It did not exonerate him, quite explicitly. [1] The report found a lot of evidence of trump team making contact with Russians. You say yourself that the investigation was obstructed.

There was also this indictment on co-ordinated Russian funded interference in NA pundit/social media space. [2] Not to mention similar groups (I'm not sure about the status of the investigation in [2] at this point) have already been dismissed [3].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49100778

[2] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-ind...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293521/foreign-influen...

> Trump. There was no Trump-Russia conspiracy, it was a witch hunt.

We know today that the 2016 Trump Campaign:

- Had over 100 meetings with Russian officials, lied and said they had 0

- Amplified information hacked by Russia, implored for more publicly

- Met with Russian spy at Trump's home to discuss relaxed relations in return for dirt on Clinton, later lied about the existence of that meeting

- Shared internal campaign polling data with a Russian intel officer.

These facts are not in dispute by anyone, and are presented in the Mueller Report, and the Senate Intel Committee Report on Russian Active Measures. From Wikipedia:

  The Senate Intelligence Committee assessed that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services" was a "grave counterintelligence threat".[50] The foremost individual was Manafort's employee Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian.[50] The committee identified Kilimnik as a "Russian intelligence officer"; describing that Manafort and Kilimnik had a "close and lasting relationship" even through the 2016 election.[53] Manafort repeatedly tried to "secretly share internal Campaign information with Kilimnik", including "sensitive internal polling data or Campaign strategy".[53]

I don't know about you, but that sounds like collusion to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-sele...

Sure, it turns out there was no big Trump/Russia conspiracy. But there were a lot of signs of Russian interference in the elections that was certain worth an investigation -- which did its job and then submitted its report, like lots of other special investigations. When you think about it, it's much more of an important topic to investigate than whether Clinton got a blow job in the Oval Office. So I disagree that it was a "witch hunt" and therefore agree that Trump's labeling it as such was disinformation. Basically 90% (pulled that number out of the hat, but feels pretty close) of what Trump said while in office was incorrect, disinformation, or straight out lies. I mean, he's so far outside the normal distribution that there's no other president to compare him with. So yeah, I'd be training journalists to label Trump's speech as disinformation too.