The Mueller Report by the Washington Post review – the truth is out there… somewhere
Robert Mueller’s detailed investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia makes for a lively read
Mueller and Trump – they surely constitute one of the great double acts in criminal history, like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty or Javert and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, and the pairing documented in this massive but obsessively detailed report is all the more magnetic because the two of them never actually meet.
Perhaps they don’t need to: like that other celebrated couple, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, their connection is symbiotic or even conjoined. An article from the Washington Post, reprinted along with the report, sums up their parallel lives. Almost exactly the same age, both born in New York, they are like twins who individualise themselves by cultivating and exaggerating their differences. One becomes a war hero, the other a draft dodger; one is a dutiful public servant, the other a grossly self-serving profiteer; one is a lawyer who reveres the truth, the other a deluded mythomaniac.