CNN's Vinograd Slams Mueller Report as 'Gift to the Government of Russia'

As part of a six-person, unanimously anti-Trump panel on CNN's The Situation Room Thursday, CNN National Security Analyst and Obama administration alum Samantha Vinograd proclaimed that the Mueller report "is a gift to the government of Russia." According to Vinograd, "this is a very proud moment for Vladimir Putin for several reasons. First, we know that he likes to use controversial and inflammatory issues as a weapon. He will weaponize this report to continue to sow divisions, spread confusion, and undermine the credibility of our institutions."  Hasn't the media already done just that, at least when it comes to sowing division?  Vinograd also claimed that the report will enable President Trump to collude with Russia ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election: "we have every reason to assume that President Trump views this document as a green light to continue doing what he was doing on the campaign. He's claiming that because there are no...further criminal indictments against him or members of his team, he didn't do anything wrong. So we should expect him to continue this behavior going forward in the 2020 campaign cycle."