[quote=Canuckus Deploracus]As the Mueller report appears to have found no collusion between president Trump and the Russians many of us on the OPP are feeling vindicated...
Certainly there is cause for joy and celebration on both sides of the issue... After all, we can all rest easier for knowing that the leader of the free world wasn't/isn't colluding with our enemy...
And I join in the satisfaction of having my faith in president Trump verified... Though I ask forgiveness for not joining in on some of the more 'enthusiastic' threads..
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I got the impression, and I suppose I could be wrong as it has happened occasionally, that you were aware enough to catch the fact that the celebrating is starting way early. There remains the important part of the report, not to mention the things that we know concerning an alarming amount of inappropriate involvements with Russia and Trump people.
Regardless of the initial report saying there wasn't anything tying Trump to his people involved with Russians, which may be no more than not enough to indict, but since many in the DOJ feels that a sitting president can't be indicted that means nothing.
Mueller's scope involved Russian interference in the election, and we know they did. So then while it might not be a crime, Trump went on for month after month denying that they had anything to do with the election, and actually obstructed efforts to determine what was done and how to keep it from happening again.
Then there is obstruction, and we've seen Trump do that openly and run a defense that it isn't obstruction if it's done in the open. I'm sure Mueller has a lot of testimony and evidence to add to that, and that can be a crime... remember it wasn't Mueller's job to charge Trump with anything, he turns the report over and the AG and congress decide how to proceed with the evidence. Even evidence that supports an indictment needs to be seen by congress so that they can impeach on those grounds.
Then there are the things we know that have been turned to other courts and jurisdictions for prosecution, including Cohen derived evidence. Look at the things in the Manafort indictment and the cooperation deal, there are things that prove he was covering for Trump that we don't know yet.
As to your statement that since there was no collusion between Trump and the Russians, many feel vindicated, but do you... knowing that this is actually just beginning now that the information Mueller has gathered is going to be put into gear?