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Originally Posted by Skybird
Still, the system is in a deep, constitutional crisis, these are no ordinary, normal times that those rules originally were meant for.
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Well many people would agree and I am one of them. There are many legal experts who believe that there was no legal basis for the appointment of a special counsel because there was no evidence that the president had committed a crime. Trying to connect the Russian interference in the 2016 election to Trump and his campaign requires evidence. Mueller never charged any Trump associate with any kind of espionage conspiracy. Obviously Mueller didn't find any legally prosecutable evidence. In the American legal system you don't name someone and then go looking for a crime. Investigations targeting Americans for violating the law have to be premised on crime. Most if not all of the convictions that Mueller has brought could have and should have been investigated and charged by the FBI, the DOJ or the FEC. The fact that Mueller is not bringing indictments for collusion is evidence of this. People's feelings about Trump should not take precedence over the rule of law.
The real debacle in all of this is the utter debasement of the Left wing anti-Trump news media both in America and elsewhere. In their certainty of Trump's guilt they ran with story after hysterical story only to be proven wrong. On one occasion Mueller himself corrected them publicly. Their reaction to the 'no more indictments' statement is equally hysterical. I'm guessing that they have learned nothing and are now looking for more 'orange man bad' windmills to joust with.