What is a conservative Trump skeptic to do with the news this week that Robert Mueller’s investigation found no conspiracy, collusion or any other word…
What is a conservative Trump skeptic to do with the news this week that Robert Mueller’s investigation found no conspiracy, collusion or any other word with a “c” between the president’s 2016 campaign and Russia?
The correct answer is: Celebrate.
Everyone in America should be thrilled to learn that an undeniably aggressive investigation over the course of nearly two years that put the screws to practically everyone who would have been in a position to know about any conspiracy has cleared the president and the campaign of the charge.
Any conspiracy finding would have plunged the country into the greatest political scandal in our history — a crisis of legitimacy with no parallel. That we have avoided such a crisis is the best news of the Trump presidency — for everyone.
Those in the “never-Trump” camp who seem unwilling or unable to accept Mueller’s conclusions are exposing themselves as less interested in the truth than they are in having their negative judgment of Trump validated and their wish to see him driven from office fulfilled no matter the larger cost such a thing would have imposed on the American future. (Yes, I am often listed as being among their number, but I always resisted having my views reduced to a Twitter hashtag.)
The Mueller finding means the 2016 election was not fatally compromised by Americans acting on behalf of a foreign power.
