Oh, but there was collusion alright: or at the very least, attempted collusion. Don Jr.'s emails with the Russian lawyer are smoking-gun evidence of that.
The probe didn't turn up evidence implicating Trump himself in the collusion, but why should we set the goalposts there, exactly? The pornstar payoffs during the election were bad enough and who really thinks Cohen did it himself unprompted? The convictions of Stone, Manafort, etc. as well showed what kind of folks Trumps runs around with. Justice was served: it was a useful exercise, and foreshadowed exactly the kind of conduct that Trump himself engaged in personally Ukrainegate with Zelensky.
Caught red-handed doing an end-run around his own FBI and Justice Department by recruiting a foreign counterpart to launch an investigation on a political rival's son, with no evidence at all. Still Trumpies didn't care and cheered on every obstructive tactic in impeachment.
Sitting Presidents cannot be indicted, as we've all come to learn. So it will be interesting to see what happens when Trump leaves office and his legal protections fall away: whether he pre-emptively pardons himself, as he has claimed he has the right to do, or else resigns 5 minutes before leaving office and has Pence do it for him.
Whether the next Department of Justice has the spine to investigate and prosecute Trump, or else simply lets him crawl away in shame in the interests of bringing the country together.
Either way, the damage to the rule of law has been done.
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