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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

But instead, a majority of the media, and the rabid Trump haters, led a large portion of the country to believe Mueller was going to come back with proof of criminal acts.

And, again, I don't think you're correctly diagnosing where the "criminal" expectations came from. "It's not a crime" is literally a Giuliani talking point and it was meant to, and did, narrow the scandal to only crimes and thus relegate outrageous misconduct and being compromised by a foreign-power to non-issue status.

That wasn't the media's idea, even if many of them fell for it.

I understand there was enough smoke to warrant Mueller's probe. But I think there's also a lesson in this, and the Stevens case, and the Menendez case, about the criminalization of politics.

Mueller's investigation exists entirely because Trump fired Comey and then said he did it to end the Russia investigation, which, recall, began as an intelligence investigation into whether Trump was compromised, not a criminal investigation.

What we need is to elect people who are smart enough lie less, or lie better, or, if they actually believe themselves to be innocent, let the process play out.

Of course, he isn't innocent and the investigation was going to demonstrate that he was compromised, so I guess their strategy worked perfectly.