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It was probably about a year ago when my coworker made pins and stickers with the face of Robert Mueller and then passed them out to other coworkers who'd appreciate them.

I was thrilled to get them and proudly put the pin on my backpack, which I've kept on this whole time.

I did this because I put my hope in Special Counsel Bob Mueller's investigation into the Russian interference in 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. I wanted so bad to read and hear that all the smoke we've been seeing about for the last 22 months (indictments, investigations, leaks, money trails, testimonies, etc.) meant there was actually a blazing bonfire at the source.

Let me say this before I continue, in case anyone accuses me of blind partisanship. I would've never accused the other Republican candidates of the things I accused Donald Trump of. I would've never accused Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, or any other Republican president of the modern era of the things I've accused Donald Trump of.

But my hatred towards Donald Trump is so strong that I wanted the worst legal outcome for him, and his adult children, if they were also culpable.

I'll be honest. I am very disappointed in the result and outcome of the Special Counsel's report. I wanted it to contain irrefutable facts about the Trump Campaigns acts of conspiracy to manipulate the election with the Russian government's assistance. Or that Donald Trump and his children were unwitting and active assets of the Russian government. Writing this paragraph, I sound like a left-wing conspiracy theorist. It's mildly embarrassing, I admit. It's because I wanted the report to be as consequential as the Nixon tapes were in turning the tide of Republicans against him, leading to his fateful resignation. That's how much I hate him.

But it wasn't. Bob Mueller has decided to say there was no compelling evidence to suggest conspiracy, and has remained agnostic about whether the president committed obstruction of justice or not. Attorney General William Barr has come to his own conclusion, based on the report, that the president has not obstructed justice.

And so the Democrats will continue to fight to get the full and unaltered report, likely continue investigations amid Republicans' accusations of partisan rage against Donald Trump, and risk looking like sore losers before the 2020 presidential elections if they're not careful.

I will continue to believe, based on all the incontrovertible evidence so far, that Donald Trump, along with his circle of associates, is corrupt, incompetent, and self-serving. He has surrounded himself with lawless individuals, foreign and domestic, throughout his life. He is wholly unfit to occupy the office of the Presidency of the United States.

Now, while I'm not getting what I hoped for, I will move onto my next hope: to see that he is routed in the 2020 presidential election.

But that hope is wavering.