Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti said the end of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Donald Trump's election only means that now "the terrain shifts to Congress."
Continetti's comments came during a discussion on Fox News Channel's Special Report about Mueller filing his report late Friday afternoon. Continetti said that the report could be anticlimactic.
"It may very well be the case that all of this was for nothing, that this is an investigation without a crime," he said.
Continetti added that "the battle will continue" to investigate Trump.
"It's incumbent on the White House who think that this is over, they need to understand that it's not over," he said. "The arguments over transparency are about to begin, that the investigations that were kind of spawned from the Mueller investigation would continue, and, moreover, now the terrain shifts to Congress, and the House of Representatives, and the Democratic fishing investigation that's been going on now for several weeks."
Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General William Barr around 5:00 pm on Friday, after weeks of speculation that his report was immanent. Barr said in a one-page letter to Congress that he would be able to brief lawmakers on the "principal conclusions" of conclusions of the report as soon as the end of the weekend.
The White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that her offices have not yet "received or been briefed on the Special Counsel’s report."
"The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course," she said.
Mueller will not be issuing any further indictments either to Trump or his campaign affiliates, according to a report.
After the opening of the Mueller report almost two years ago, several congressional committees have opened investigations into Trump's campaign, as has the the Southern District of New York.