After two years of questions, subpoenas, and court appearances, White House officials said a cloud had been lifted from the Trump presidency with publication of the Mueller report and promised to get on with tackling healthcare and the immigration crisis.

The president left in Marine One for his Easter break in Florida on Thursday afternoon without speaking to journalists assembled on the south lawn of the White House.

Instead he left it to surrogates, friends, and officials to push back against a slew of negative headlines that emphasized how the president only failed to obstruct justice because his aides refused to “carry out orders.”

They said the president had been vindicated by a report that concluded there had been no collusion with Russia.