I’m denying that there’s anything even vaguely, tangentially criminal about ‘ongoing contacts between members of the Trump campaign and the Russian government’ such that it warrants us even talking seriously about it, and that the only crimes that have been committed or alleged have been manufactured by the investigation asking dozens of people thousands of questions until someone invariably gets a date wrong or denies something they have a reason to hide and is declared to have ‘lied to the FBI’.
Again, see Scooter Libby or Bill Clinton if you need examples of people who were punished for ‘perjuring themselves’ in investigations that had no firm reason to occur in the first place.
Well, it’s important to point out that the only reason you imagine there’s any sort of deal at all is because you watch CNN too much. In reality all we actually know is that Flynn was caught lying to the FBI and charged for it. Perhaps he was simply caught lying to the FBI, and there was no point in denying the charges because 1.) they go easier on you if you plead guilty and 2.) the evidence was overwhelming? If there is in fact a deal exists, it could be about literally anything; I mean, that’s why the idea of a deal has been put forward by the press, so we can fantasize about all the horrible dirt Flynn has on Trump.
Well yeah, we’ll never have evidence that more serious offenses weren’t committed, because it’s an impossibility. If we’re lucky, the special prosecution can go all the way to 2020 based purely on the strength of your “No evidence of a lack of a crime” line of reasoning.
Again, both campaigns were in open collusion with foreign Governments and everybody knows it. Nobody cared because it isn’t a crime, and when it was occurring, the narrative in which we pretend it’s a crime hadn’t been constructed yet. The fact that you ignored me saying this last time really underscores how much of a witch hunt this is. I point this out to Democrats all the time and none of them ever give two shits. The response should be “Holy shit! What do you mean!? This is a bombshell!” but of course it isn’t, because facts aren’t why we’re here…
The best you’re going to get is a finding that Trump obstructed an investigation (by firing Comey) into something that wasn’t a crime in the first place. Which will be another example of one of these special investigations creating a crime where none existed, just like the previous two high profile ones we had. Maybe if you get really lucky, Mueller will ask Trump about an affair Trump will feel the need to deny, and we’ll get a perjury charge. Either way, it will all be a consequence of an investigation that didn’t need to happen in the first place because it was based on scant evidence of activities that aren’t criminal.