Opinion | Mueller's report must be released in its entirety for the sake of our democracy

Opinion | David Brock: Mueller's report must be released in its entirety or too many Americans will never trust our democracy again. - NBCNewsTHINK

Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 election isn’t about clearing the president.

For our country to heal from the deep divisions spurred by that campaign and Donald Trump's election to the highest office in the land, we all deserve to know what happened — regardless of whether the president is entirely innocent, or whether he is a compromised actor of Vladimir Putin himself. It is time for us to rip the Band-Aid off the wounds of that campaign, so that we can understand exactly what happened in 2016. The conclusions Mueller is widely expected to draw could expose that a foreign power undeniably undertook to undermine our democratic institutions. And if so, from there, we must chart a way forward to make sure that it never happens again.

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