CLIFF OWEN/SUPPLIED If the Covode report could help ruin a presidency in 1860, the Mueller report might just do the same in 2020 - and lead to a Democratic victory. Many contemporaries believed the Covode report had an impact on the results of the election. Although Trump promised to "drain the swamp" and eliminate corruption in Washington, the Mueller report reveals that Trump did not make any attempt to purify politics. They wielded the Covode report as clear evidence that the Democratic Party could not be trusted with power after years of corruption under Buchanan. If the Covode report could help ruin a presidency in 1860, the Mueller report might just do the same in 2020 - and lead to a Democratic victory.

Source: Stuff May 13, 2019 22:07 UTC