Redacted Mueller report has unleashed a flurry of great redaction memes

A timely ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ meme.
By Nicole Gallucci  on 

At long last, the day has come. A copy of the Mueller report is expected to be released to the general public shortly, and while the American people wait they've decided to pass the time by making comfort memes.

Attorney General William Barr is set to release some 400-pages of findings from Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into Donald Trump and his administration's involvement with Russia, but there's a catch: parts of the report will be redacted.

The report is said to be "lightly redacted," but having seen the massive redacted portions in the Special Counsel's sentencing memo on Michael Flynn last year, people are rightfully skeptical. As they wonder whether or not the report will be presented with an absurd amount of blacked out text, people are preparing for a potential let down with some jokes.

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While you wait for the highly anticipated report to drop, please enjoy some memes.

After the report was published, the redactions were a'plenty. So the meme trend, of course, continued.

This investigation has been ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ exhausting.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.


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