MOULTRIE, Ga. — With the limited information available so far from the long-anticipated “Mueller report,” local political leaders were wanting more details before rendering a final judgment.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday delivered his report of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who has released a brief summary.

At the national level, predictably, Democrats are demanding to see the full report from the 22-month probe and President Donald Trump is claiming it exonerates him and is demanding an investigation of “the other side.”

“All you heard in the media for two years is that we’re absolutely sure there was collusion, and Trump denied it the whole time,” said Moultrie attorney Hayden Willis, who chairs the Colquitt County Republican Party. “We don’t have the full report yet.”

In previous instances where special counsels were appointed to conduct presidential investigations, he said, leaks were common. Willis said that the lack of leaks from Mueller’s probe gives him some confidence that the investigation was conducted properly.

“They had a team of 40 lawyers — 40 very good lawyers — take a good look at this,” he said. “They did the work and stayed out of the political side. That’s a reason to trust what does come out of the report.”

In today’s climate of polarization and with the 2020 presidential election already well under way, many people likely will see what they want to see in whatever information eventually is released to the public.

“There’s going to be something buried somewhere in the report that one side will say, ‘This changes everything,’” Willis said.

He also had some advice for the other side: Don’t make everything about investigating Trump.

At some point, Willis said, voters are going to expect Democrats to offer solutions other than investigating Trump.

“In 2020 they’re going to have to answer how they’ll do it better,” he said.

Colquitt County Democratic Party Chairman Alma Fleming said that she “hasn’t given it much thought” based on the limited information that has been released.

She would like Barr to release the report to Congress and the public so that people can make up their own minds.

“I think we should,” she said. “We need to know what’s all in there.”

Fleming said she does not trust the Trump-appointed attorney general’s summary.

“I’m hoping that we will get a chance to hear or read the full report ourselves as a nation,” Fleming said. “I felt, as important as it was, what we got wasn’t enough. It cannot be evaluated from three or four pages coming from the attorney general.”

For Coolidge resident Jerome Burgess, who describes himself as a staunch conservative, releasing the report makes sense because otherwise it will be released over time as leaks to the media.

“I think they should released every bit of it and let (it) fall where it may,” he said.

Burgess, a Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office deputy, said that includes holding anyone who may have committed crimes accountable and filing criminal charges where warranted.