Sophistry. You're proposing a range of options far more limited than reality.I literally said in the exact same post I believe both are simultaneously true, meaning I disagreed with the assertion it's an either/or proposition to begin with.
This is not the same thing.In other words, despite four years of sustained heightened partisan rhetoric, the Democrats don't actually have anything on him, never had anything on him, and knew it. Which would be why, as I said and have said for a year and a half, Democrats kicked the can on impeachment down the road until they reached a point the matter was forced upon them to protect Biden's candidacy. Exactly how many times did I make this precise point on the old forums?
The Democrats could only push an impeachment past the Senate, and the Senate (being Republican) would be almost guaranteed to reject impeachment, certainly without a cast iron signal from Mueller, which Mueller declined to provide due to his interpretation of DoJ policy. In other words, the Democrats knew that impeaching Trump over the Mueller probe would fail. And sure, they took action against him over Ukraine when he started threatening Biden, and they were almost certainly sure that would fail too. But nevertheless, once Trump steps down, he is potentially still open to prosecution over Mueller.
Right, but we're arguing the same point here. The case against Trump needs to be investigated neutrally by legal professionals on its own merits. There will indeed be political "blowback" if a prosecution is pursued under any circumstance, but that blowback is best mitigated by the process being as transparently neutral as possible... and that a prosecution is ultimately successful.There'd be blowback for prosecution regardless, likely in terms of both electoral fallout and a return to Clinton-era right-wing extremist violence. This is as moot a point as one can possibly be. The rule of law ought not hinge upon whether people get mad about it after the fact; justice is, after all, blind. If Trump committed criminal acts, and those acts are of prosecutorial merit, he damn well ought to be investigated and indicted regardless of the fact he will very soon be an ex-president.