So You Want to Read the Mueller Report: An Awkward Mixture Offering

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But, while Mueller's presentation disappointed Democrats because he refused to explicitly agree that the President committed a crime, he reiterated throughout, that his report disagreed with Trump and Barr's PR spin (though Mueller refused to name them directly).


A) The report did not exonerate the President.


C) He agreed that the Trump campaign and White House officials lied to impede the investigation.

D) He did not subpoena the President because Trump resisted, and compelling him through legal avenues would take too long.

E) He found Trump's written answers to be incomplete and also untruthful.

F) Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and is planning to do so again.


The President immediately repeated his usual falsehoods, claiming that Mueller cleared him of collusion and of obstruction, and “that it was a complete and total exoneration.” The same day the President also insisted Mueller didn't have the right to exonerate. The President seemed oddly focused on Mueller's performance. But during the impromptu press conference, the President offered a piece of advice which everyone should follow. He said, “Look at, not only the report, beyond the report, take a look at what he was forced to say...” I'm not sure if anyone could explain what the President meant by 'beyond the report', or 'what he was forced to say', but he did seem to imply that everyone should read the Mueller Report. Later in the clip the President repeated himself, saying, “If you look, the whole report, you take a look at what they did, some of the things he didn't even know about...” Again I think anyone would be hard pressed to explain the second part of that sentence, but the first is important. Everyone should read the Mueller Report.

That is one of the few sentiments on which the President and I agree, and yet I believe most Americans, including the President, have not fulfilled. Americans think four hundred and fifty pages of obscure names, footnotes, and six layers of subheadings would be too difficult to absorb. Instead citizens have abdicate their responsibility and allowed pundits to determine the narrative.

This article attempts to offer an opportunity, to assist the hesitant reader by creating an shorter version of the Mueller Report.

The Report was released as one document but separated into two Volumes. Volume I examined the investigation into conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government through numerous intermediaries. Volume II explained the investigation into obstructing the investigation.
This document only includes an Awkward Mixture version of Volume I, which was original 200 pages. Volume II will follow in a week or two.

A few notes on the document(s) on offering:
  1. The document has been shortened by eliminating unnecessary sentences (and occasionally shortening them).
  1. All footnotes have been eliminated.
  2. No writing has been added or altered. That is, I neither added or altered words.
  3. However, some aspects were added by Awkward Mixture.
    1. Color has been added to all the headings to distinguish sections. They follow the color scheme of ROYGBIV, with Red as the highest level titles.
    2. Italics were added to the Medium and Long documents for emphasis.
  1. About 10% of the Mueller Report was REDACTED. Where the document included REDACTIONS, I did not keep the original length. Therefore any REDACTED marker does not indicate the length of the REDACTED statement (unless specifically noted).
What follows are four different versions of the Report, all of which follow the aforementioned rules. The Longest report includes the entirety of headings and subheadings, which include; Volume I, Introduction, Executive Summary, and subheadings, using uppercase roman numerals – I, II, III, using uppercase letters – A, B, C, using numbers – 1, 2, 3, using lowercase letters – a, b, c, and using lowercase roman numerals – i, ii, iii. In length, the Longest report is 100 pages, a 50% reduction from the original.

The Long report remains exactly the same as the Longest report, except that italics have been added, and all material from the last subheadings ( i, ii, iii, etc) has been removed. It is 73 pages long, a 63% reduction.

The Medium report is like the Long report, but it is also missing the next level of subheadings (a, b, c). In length it is 32 pages, a 84% reduction.

Finally there is the Short report, which is also missing the subheadings which use numbers (1, 2, 3). This report only contains 15 pages, a 95% reduction.

Readers are free to read any of these versions. Of course, The Longest report contains the most detail, while the Short version only includes the most basic summaries of the events further detailed in the complete report.

I have tried to include page numbers, so readers can refer to the complete report if they have any further questions.

Also, I made these versions by (in most cases) copying and pasting instead of retyping. Apparently the DOJ file was of such poor quality that there were often mistakes and errors created in the process of copying. I have tried to repair them, but there some are certain to remain.
At last, here are the documents. Take your pick, and enjoy:

Longest Report – 100 pages

Long Report – 73 pages

Medium Report – 32 pages

Short Report – 15 pages

DOJ Complete Report – 200 pages

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