What the Mueller report boils down to is Trump isn’t guilty of obstruction because the people around him refused to follow his orders, and his campaign isn’t guilty of collusion because they were too stupid to figure out how to cooperate with Russian spies. The question is, What should Congress do about it?
Ordinary criminal law provides an analogy. If you try to rob a bank but fail, you’re not guilty of bank robbery, but you are guilty of attempted bank robbery. Thus, Congress should impeach Trump for attempted obstruction and collusion.
Then again if a group of people talk about robbing a bank, and there was never any intent, nor any actual organization, a good prosecutor is not going to touch it with a ten foot pole. First Amendment comes to mind. If they spoke with their attorney in the room then there are other issues. Also you are only talking about what the House does. At some point here President Trump should call the House and say some on down, and when they do not impeach they will be seen as impotent by the American people. Worse they know removal from office will not occur, facing the same dilemma a Prosecutor may face when yeah there was a attempt at robbing a bank, but it went so badly the robbers never made it to the bank, and another group of robbers made off with the banks safe and cash. Prosecutors are not supposed to bring charges in a case the jury is going to never give a conviction in. Worse to really describe impeachment in the way you do missed the point that impeachment and removal from office is actually just a coup by Congress. In the end that is what it is. One need look no further than the impeachment of President Johnson over charges that were trumped up by Congress over an issue that the Supreme Court would eventually rule that the President had authority to do that which Congress impeached Johnson for.
Should Nixon have been impeached over a petty dirty political trick involving burglary. Probably not. Yet a Congress dominated by the Democratic party was going to. Yet the charge that frankly Nixon should have been impeached over (the secret bombing of Cambodia) did not have the votes in the House, and probably would not have lead to removal. In fact prior to the 1972 election when a Congressman tried to move for impeachment and removal due to the bombings Congressional leadership stopped it in fear that its failure to remove Nixon would impede any future attempts at impeachment, and impact Democrats at the poles. A situation that currently exists.
So Mark’s Congressional weather report over impeachment is expect lots of sound and fury, but no rain, maybe a little mist on the south forty.
It’s pointless to argue with someone as poorly informed as you are, Mark. But thanks for showing us your true colors.