"If you're interested in understanding the Trump-Russia findings, ignore what Barr wrote," says Virginia Heffernan. Instead, she says, watch the speech Rep. Adam Schiff delivered before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. "There was none of Barr's fuzziness or torque in what Schiff said. He didn't hypothesize," she writes. "He didn't speculate. He just laid it all out."

Seth Hettena of the Los Angeles Times reminds Americans that they need no report to be aware that the all-too public words, actions and behaviors of the 45th U.S. president have been suspicious, damaging and, in many cases, "a national security nightmare."

"Judging from its convention this week, the Republican Party is overdue for rebranding, the way a real estate developer might rebrand a hotel or golf resort. It’s the Trump Party now," write Doyle McManus. "Every presidential convention is a celebration of the party’s nominee, but this one focuses lavishly on the stupendous figure of Donald J. Trump: his supposed authorship of the economic recovery that began under Barack Obama, his self-described success in stopping the coronavirus that continues to kill 1,000 Americans a day, and his heroic role as 'the bodyguard of Western civilization,' as one speaker put it."