The End of the Mueller Investigation and Its Implications for U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy
The End of the Mueller Investigation and Its Implications for U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy

Author(s): Mateusz Piotrowski
Subject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Political behavior, Politics and law
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: United States; election campaign; cooperation with Russia; presidential elections; Mueller investigation; foreign policy; relations with Russia;
Summary/Abstract: According to the U.S. attorney general, Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence that President Donald Trump or his campaign staff cooperated with Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Therefore, the Democrats’ goal will not be impeachment but to create a message about Trump’s unworthiness for re-election. This will be facilitated by the investigations initiated by them in congressional committees, and by other probes carried out by the U.S. judicial system. Trump will try to limit their effect by seeking successes in domestic and foreign policy, although no breakthrough in relations with Russia is to be expected.

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