That's simple.  Putin, if forced, will say that he and his government had nothing to do with anything claimed by the American prosecutor; claims that are suspect, at best.  Trump?  Well, if Vlad says so, what's a POTUS to do but accept his word?

Arty... Rudy said "no Americans are involved..."?

(My highlight)

The Russians also attempted to infiltrate local election systems and software, although Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says that there is no evidence that they "altered the vote count or changed any election result".

The Trump White House has picked up on this line, issuing a statement reiterating that there have been no allegations of "knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign" or that the hacking "affected the election result".

That isn't what Mr Rosenstein and the special counsel's court filings concluded, however. The deputy attorney general said it was "not our responsibility" to assess to what extent Russian involvement influenced the 2016 election.

From: Four intriguing lines in Mueller indictment - BBC News 13 July 2018

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~OGD~

You're likely right, though anyone who's reading him is likely aware of not only the article but the published book that's been shopped around.  Obama's response has been well documented, so unless there's a left-wing cave somewhere (and that's more than likely) folks know this.  I still wish he had framed it as more of a remember this? than a must read now.  It's common for the former to pop up - obvious reasons abound.  

That's a silly question. I'd prefer any of the presidents or possible presidents to Trump. I'd prefer Hillary, Romney, McCain, both Bush, Reagan, Kerry,   and Obama. Anyone would be better than the worse president in my lifetime. I think history will judge Obama harshly as a feckless president. I agree with Wolraich's most recent post:

I don't think he understood the nature of the times or the nature of his opposition. I don't think Obama was a good leader. I predicted this in 2008. His skill lies in being the mediator that brings two sides together. It's his resume all his life. It's the story of his time as head of the Harvard Law Review. What he never understood is to mediate between two sides both sides have to want to compromise and the republicans never wanted to. What he never learned was how to lead.

He was given a large majority in the house and 60 votes in the senate and what did he do with it? A stimulus bill that any democratic congress would pass that was over loaded with tax cuts instead of spending. I give him almost no credit for it. I credit the congress. And the ACA. Everything Obama did made it worse. It really is Obamacare because his foolish desire to get just one republican vote watered it down with unneccessary compromises. In the end for nothing as not one single republican voted for the law largely designed by the republican Heritage Society.

I could go on. The problems with immigration were largely caused by Obama. Rather than taking action early in his term he became know as the deportation president in a foolish effort to prove to republicans he was serious about border control. He truly believed that would get republicans to compromise on immigration. His foreign policy was hands off most everywhere but especially in Central America where gang warfare destabilized a few states and cause the immigration crisis. Central American immigration isn't really an immigration problem, it's a refugee crisis similar except in severity to the Middle East refugee crisis Europe has been dealing with.

He didn't start the Iraq War or Afghanistan War so I don't blame him for it. Maybe nothing could have been done to end either of those wars or to stop the War in Syria. That's exactly what Obama decided to do, nothing. America is mostly to blame for the refugee crisis in Europe and he did nothing to deal with it. Now radicalized anti immigrant populists are rising in power across Europe. I mostly blame Obama for it. I could forgive him for mistakes and failures if he had taken action. But I don't forgive him for his lethargy as the world devolved into chaos.