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Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released the "main conclusions" of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's completed Russia probe in a bombshell four-page letter to Capitol Hill lawmakers, which stated definitively that Mueller did not establish evidence that President Trump's squad or whatsoever associates of the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to sway the 2016 ballot -- "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."

For Trump, who has tweeted more than 230 times that he did not collude with Russians amid a torrent of allegations from media and political figures, the moment amounted to a most-total vindication. Although Mueller noted that his report did not "exonerate" Trump on obstruction, Barr wrote, the "written report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the Special Counsel obtain any sealed indictments that accept yet to be fabricated public."

"No Bunco, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION," Trump wrote on Twitter Dominicus afternoon. "Go along AMERICA GREAT!"

Later, he told reporters, "It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the almost ridiculous thing I've ever heard. There was no bunco with Russia, there was no obstruction. ...  It's a shame that our country had to go through this, to be honest, information technology's a shame that your president has had to go through this -- since earlier I fifty-fifty got elected, it began. And it began illegally. Hopefully someone is going to look at the other side. This was an illegal takedown that failed."

Mueller'southward squad specifically looked into two Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 ballot -- kickoff, the work by a Russian organisation, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to "comport disinformation and social media operations" designed to "sow discord" in the United States.

According to Barr's letter of the alphabet, "the Special Counsel did not find that any U.South. person or Trump entrada official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts, although the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connexion with these activities."

Next, Mueller investigated whether the Trump team was involved in the hacking of emails, many of which were released publicly through intermediaries like WikiLeaks, that belonged to the Hillary Clinton entrada and the Autonomous National Committee (DNC).

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"The Special Counsel did not find that the Trump entrada, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated" with Russians who worked on those hacking efforts, according to Barr's letter, "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump entrada."

Mueller's report did not reach a conclusion on whether the Trump entrada obstructed justice, and left that decision to Barr and officials at the DOJ -- who determined there was insufficient evidence of obstruction. Mueller "recognized," according to Barr's letter of the alphabet, that the lack of evidence that Trump was involved in collusion would undercut any obstruction instance -- which would depend on showing a corrupt intent by the president.

Attorney General William Barr leaving his home in McLean, Va., on Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Attorney General William Barr leaving his dwelling house in McLean, Va., on Sunday morning. (AP Photograph/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

"The Special Counsel therefore did non draw a determination - one manner or the other - as to whether the examined acquit constituted obstacle," co-ordinate to Barr'south letter. "Instead, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the written report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the Special Counsel views as 'hard problems' of police force and fact apropos whether the President'southward actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a criminal offence, information technology also does not exonerate him.'"

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Barr's letter of the alphabet ended: "After reviewing the Special Counsel'southward last report on these problems… Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence adult during the Special Counsel'due south investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstacle-of-justice offense."

"This was an illegal takedown that failed."

— President Trump

"Our decision was made without regard to, and is non based on, the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting president," Barr stated.

Barr said Mueller'due south team "thoroughly" investigated allegations that Trump's team sought to conspire with Russians or obstruct investigators. The Special Counsel "issued more than than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than than 230 orders for advice records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made xiii requests to strange governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses," Barr wrote.

President Trump has tweeted more than 230 times that he did not collude with Russians amid a torrent of allegations from media and political figures. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Trump has tweeted more 230 times that he did not collude with Russians amid a torrent of allegations from media and political figures. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Barr's disclosure was a capstone moment following the 22-month investigation that ensnared six sometime Trump advisers and associates -- just resulted in no indictments related to collusion with Russia.

The letter promised to settle some of the largest outstanding questions of the Mueller investigation, even equally Democrats on Sunday vowed to press on with other investigations, and members of both parties continued to button for the public release of as much of the Mueller report as possible.

Barr's letter noted that he would piece of work chop-chop with Mueller to determine which sections of the report could exist released, and which needed to be withheld because they contained sensitive chiliad jury-related matters shielded by law. A DOJ official confirmed to Fox News that the process of determining what data tin can be released has already begun.

Trump'southward personal legal team, including Rudy Giuliani, Jay Sekulow, Jane Serene Raskin, and Martin R. Raskin, declared victory late Lord's day.

"As we have stated from the very beginning, there was no collusion and no obstruction," the lawyers said. "This is a complete and full vindication of the President."

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and his wife, Ann, leaving St. John's Episcopal Church, across from the White House, in Washington on Sunday. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and his wife, Ann, leaving St. John'southward Episcopal Church, across from the White House, in Washington on Sunday. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

In response to Barr'due south alphabetic character, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., tweeted: "Seems like the Department of Justice is putting matters squarely in Congress' court."

Nadler, speaking to "Fox News Sun," insisted, "So we know a lot of things and maybe information technology's not indictable, but we know at that place was collusion. The question is the degree."

Along those lines, Nadler said that Democrats would go along their efforts.

"The job of Congress is much broader than the job of the special counsel," Nadler said. "The special counsel is looking and can just look for crimes. We have to protect the rule of police force, nosotros take to expect for abuses of power, we have to look for obstructions of justice, we have to look for abuse in the practice of ability which may not be crimes."

But House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga., speaking to "Play a trick on News Sunday," argued that Democrats were unlikely to uncover anything Mueller could not.

"As we've seen in the first two months of this Congress, [Democrats] actually don't have a policy agenda," Collins said. "They have an agenda against the President. They have an agenda to try and win 2020. And and so, what we're seeing is, they retrieve that they can become into the Judiciary Commission or whatever other committee and have a limited upkeep, limited subpoena ability, limited staff and go up against an investigation that lasted 22 months, had unlimited power, unlimited subpoena power, had plenty of investigators -- and they think they tin detect something more than than what they did, and so I call up they're sadly mistaken."

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla., en route to Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Donald Trump boards Air Forcefulness One, Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Palm Beach International Drome, in Westward Palm Embankment, Fla., en route to Washington. (AP Photograph/Carolyn Kaster)

A erstwhile senior law enforcement official echoed those remarks, telling Fox News that Democrats would lack fundamental investigative powers that Mueller had, including the ability to convene grand juries -- and that Nadler's path amounted to trying to criminalize meetings with foreign actors that the special counsel apparently determined were just not criminal.

"With all the talk of the Democrats intensifying their Firm investigations," the former official said, information technology was important to note that "different Special Counsel Mueller, Congress and the [DOJ Inspector Full general] cannot convene grand juries and initiate prosecutions. If Mueller couldn't find collusion or conspiracy with every investigative tool, what do the Democrats expect to accomplish?"

Top Democrats in Congress had scrambled to respond to the end of the Mueller probe this weekend, holding an emergency briefing call and discussing potential side by side steps.

A top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee conceded to reporters Saturday that Barr'south release of Mueller's conclusions likely would be a cause for celebration among President Trump's supporters -- many of whom have stood by the president for more than ii years amid a torrent of unproven allegations that the Trump campaign illegally worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

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"Information technology'due south the stop of the beginning but it's not the kickoff of the stop," Delaware Sen. Chris Coons said, echoing his party's strategy of moving forrard on to other investigations, including probes into Trump'southward fiscal dealings. "Once nosotros get the principal conclusions of the report," he added later, "I think it'south entirely possible that that volition be a adieu for the president and his cadre supporters."

Some conservatives, meanwhile, argued that Democrats should come under increased scrutiny for their contacts with foreign nationals. Hillary Clinton'southward campaign and the Autonomous National Commission (DNC) hired the firm Fusion GPS, which employed Britsh ex-spy Christopher Steele to produce an anti-Trump dossier that the FBI used to justify the surveillance a meridian Trump aide and kickstart the Russia probe -- even as text messages exclusively obtained by Fox News this week revealed that the DOJ seemingly raised "repeated" concerns that Steele, whose anti-Trump views are now widely known, was politically biased.

The Trump aide, Carter Page, has not been charged with any wrongdoing, although the FBI initially alleged he had conspired with Russians.

On Sunday, Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Hashemite kingdom of jordan said Sunday that if the Mueller report is disclosed publicly, and so all documents relating to it should likewise be published -- including the complete Strange Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to monitor Page.

"Nosotros take asked for that information to be made public a long time ago," Hashemite kingdom of jordan said in a televised interview.

In a show of confidence, for his part, Trump waved and flashed two thumbs up to supporters every bit he returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Saturday. The entertainer Kid Rock afterwards uploaded a photograph of his golf outing with Trump earlier in the day.

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On Sunday forenoon, Trump bankrupt an unusual, nearly forty-hour-long Twitter silence, writing merely, "Good Morn, Have A Smashing Day!"

He added, minutes later: "Make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Fox News' Jake Gibson at the Justice Section and Chris Wallace contributed to this report.