Did he or didn't he, that is the question.

President Donald Trump's approval rating dropped by 3 percentage points to 37 following the publication of the Mueller report, compared to 40% on 15 April. To put it in perspective, the approval rating for the US Congress was 21% on the same day. Attorney General William Barr released a redacted report on 18 April even though such reports are not released. According to the CNN, Trump is guilty of serious crimes but it would be better to let voters decide whether to punish him during his re-election bid next year, rather than trying to impeach him, because Republicans are so terrified of his base that they will vote against it. "Mueller's depiction is of a President unfit for any traditional concept of his office -- covering up, lying, dangling pardons, trampling constitutional norms and viewing his campaign as an 'infomercial' for his businesses casts an indelible stain on his administration." "Realistically, Democrats may be unwilling to pay the price of an impeachment investigation" because "most voters have little stomach for House impeachment hearings and would prefer to concentrate on an electoral remedy on Trump's transgressions". Or they may not. CNN has been known to be against Republicans and has been accused of publishing 'fake news' by Donald Trump. Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign but "chose not to make any formal conclusions about whether Trump obstructed justice". "Mueller looked into 11 separate patterns of conduct as part of the investigation into obstruction, including Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey; efforts pressuring Jeff Sessions, the previous attorney general, to reverse his recusal from the investigation; and Trump's efforts to fire Mueller himself." James Comey is a narcissist who definitely interfered with the presidential election in 2016 when he suddenly announced an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails in October, just days before the election. Previously, in July he had decided that Clinton would not be charged but had been "extremely careless". The FBI is an investigative agency and, as its director, his job was to pass on his findings to the Justice Department and not make a theater out of it. Mueller's ego seems to have been hurt by Trump's desire to fire him because he wrote that "under the law someone can be guilty of obstruction of justice even in the absence of an underlying crime". Elections are still 18 months away and by that time all this will be old news even if Democrats try to milk it by way of endless hearings. The economy picked up in the first quarter of this year with higher retail sales and lower unemployment. Stockton in California is to start a program of universal basic income. This is the state that Hillary Clinton won 4.3 million votes in 2016. Economy versus socialism, it could be very interesting.