Similar to Trumping Democracy, the Mueller report is focusing on the facts. While I haven't read all 448 pages of the original, Mueller's summary 1 and 2 provide the high-level details. Several things were surprising to me:
- The report explicitly says: we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of "collusion." - The no collusion tweets are irrelevant.
- Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA) sent agents to the US as early as 2014, their:
- Posted misinformation to divide US citizens where divisions existed
- Organized rallies, sometimes planning for opposing groups for the same time and place to create chaos.
- Trump Tower Moscow was papers were signed in 2015.
- Russia wanted control of Eastern Ukraine and worked with Paul Manafort, a cyber security firm confirmed Russian hackers accessed the DNC's opposition research. The summary has the interesting line: "Manafort had caused internal polling data to be shared".
- Meetings continued after the election - Erik Prince and Michael Flynn.
- Besides the list of Trump's campaign staff who have lied to Congress, the summary lists that some of their leads invoked the 5th, deleted relevant communications was also common.
- The obstruction of justice summary list two cases where Trump's request are not done to minimize damage (not firing Comey or Sessions), however that is still obstruction.
- There is also a magazine version which goes through the history and provides a more human view of the victims.
Another interesting source is https://www.lawfareblog.com/. Politico's view of Mueller's hearing was quite positive.