Love Trump or hate Trump the facts are these:
The Mueller Report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller:
1. Finds insufficient evidence of collusion (aka criminal conspiracy) with Russia by Trump, by his Administration or by any American person. [LATER: another way of saying this: "Not Guilty"]
2. Finds insufficient evidence of obstruction of justice (aka corrupt obstruction) by Trump, by his Administration or by any American person. [LATER: another way of saying this: "Not Guilty"]
And if you don't believe me: read the Report.
Democrats and the left media are misrepresenting the second point. I'm reading the New York Times and the Financial Times (UK), awa watching CNN and CNBC. They have latched onto the notion that because the second part of the MR did not "exonerate" then that's where we can pound on Trump. That the literal words "insufficient" evidence means "some" evidence and so... keep on truckin'. Never mind that the SC himself, and his partisan committee finds not enough ("insufficient") evidence after two years of digging.
A prosecutor is not about "exonerating". It's like this keen amateur lawyer (aka me, myself, I), has long known from watching legal procedurals: judgements are only ever "guilty" or "not guilty".
Not "guilty" or "innocent".
If Mueller had had the sufficient evidence of criminal conspiracy or obstruction of justice, he would have presented it on his report and the justice department could then make a case. But the Special Counsel — and his committee of mainly and plainly partisan Democrats — did not have the sufficient evidence and so did not report what it did not have.
"Exoneration" be damned.
[Which does make Trump's claims of exoneration rather begging a bagging. He'd have been better off saying the finding are "not guilty". But then he's Trump. And he's president. And I'm not.]
Trump did many silly things and many bad things, in his campaign and after. Mueller's Report recounts these. But criminal? No. It's not there and no amount of jumping up and down is going to change that simple fact.
I do hope the Dems head down the impeachment path nonetheless, as Pocahontas is calling for. With her mates AOC and Rashida Tlaib.
It'll be fun to watch them sink into the mud.
Pelosi is finger in the dam for now. Fun to watch that battle with Pocahontas' progressive tribe play out, too.
