With Mueller, it was always waiting till the next thing.

First, we needed to wait on Mueller’s purportedly explosive findings during the period when it was constantly said that the walls were “closing in” on the president.

Then, when those finding were disappointing, at least as rendered in Attorney General Bill Barr’s initial letter, we needed to wait on Mueller’s report.

The report did indeed include more damning details, but when it didn’t really move the needle politically, we needed to wait on the unredacted version.

Finally, we needed to wait on Mueller’s testimony that, we were told, would potentially lend compelling TV moments to a lengthy report that not enough people read to have an impact.