In his first public comments on the outcome of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Putin welcomed the finding that no one involved in Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia in the 2016 election. “We said from the very start that this notorious commission of Mr. Mueller wouldn’t find anything because we know this better than anyone,” Putin said Tuesday at the International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg. Trump scored the biggest political victory of his presidency last month when Attorney General William Barr published a summary of Mueller’s assessment that there was no collusion during the campaign.
