Expectations for the Mueller Report Were Set Too High
The special counsel found plenty of damning evidence, but the end of his investigation still feels like an anticlimax.
For more than a year, many members of the American media treated Robert Mueller as if he were in the entertainment business, and the Mueller report as if it were the season finale of U.S. politics, one that would deliver a shocking twist.
Although more responsible journalists repeatedly warned that a big-bang showpiece was unlikely—that just isn’t Mueller’s style—the expectations were set impossibly high. Anything short of Mueller leading an
