"Russiagate didn't lead to impeachment!"
Because House Democrats followed the evidence where it led and acted accordingly. Crazy concept, that. Some bad guys got nailed, but not the President himself.
Of course, you're omitting the fact that Trump *was* impeached just a few months later as a result of the Zelensky call and the months-long backchannel pressure campaign leading up to that. Evidence that couldn't ultimately be fully investigated, thanks to the Trump Administration's holistic obstruction of congressional subpoenas and the GOP Senate's aiding and abetting the same. Giuliani, Bolton, Mulvaney, and Pompeo never testified, let alone the President himself.
But it was still enough evidence to fill up these 658 pages. Dissenting opinions included in the interests of fairness & balance!
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20191216/CRPT-116hrpt346.pdf
I assigned this report as reading a few months ago: has anyone gotten around to it? At least a little bit of it? Enough to have an intelligent conversation about its contents?
Turning back to the excerpted Zelensky call transcript above, which is easier reading:
"Biden's son..." a telling phrase, that. People are saying, indeed.
But no. Biden didn't stop any prosecution. Hunter Biden himself was never under investigation. What Biden did was help effectuate the removal of a detested former Ukrainian prosecutor who was himself corrupt and who was wanted gone as a matter of official US, EU, G-7, and IMF policy.
If there was something there, Trump should have gone through his own FBI. Indeed: prosecutor Lutsenko suggested this very thing! "Yuri Lutsenko said while he was Ukraine’s prosecutor general he told Rudolph W. Giuliani that he would be happy to cooperate if the FBI or other U.S. authorities began their own investigation of the former vice president and his son Hunter but insisted they had not broken any Ukrainian laws to his knowledge."
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-29/former-ukraine-prosecutor-says-no-wrongdoing-biden
No doubt about it, Trump tried to steal the 2020 election by bribers a foreign government to manufacture dirt on a political rival's son, but it blew up in his face, thanks to the brave whistleblower(s) and the Democratic House's decision to grow a spine.
Impeached forever. And indeed, acquitted forever thanks to the GOP Senate's spinelessness.
No, I'm not mad that Trump wasn't removed: I'm happy that y'all get to own that for the rest of history.