The Mueller Investigation.

[Jon Miller]

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-08/donald-trump-won-the-2016-election-but-he-isn-t-above-the-law?srnd=opinion

But, to be blunt, the only political actor who is obsessed with relitigating the 2016 election is President Donald Trump. Democrats certainly don't think that anything they do now can change that result. Even those who are set on impeaching and removing Trump presumably understand that Vice President Mike Pence would move into the Oval Office.More to the point, for the purposes of judging the president’s conduct, it shouldn’t matter whether the election was close or whether any alleged misbehavior might have changed the result. That’s obvious from Watergate. No one seriously thought in 1974 that the crimes committed by President Richard Nixon’s campaign were responsible for his landslide victory over George McGovern. But the crimes were still taken seriously by all sides. No one claimed that Nixon’s victory somehow mitigated his misconduct.Although Trump doesn’t appear to have committed any crimes during the campaign with respect to Russia, it does seem likely that he obstructed justice and otherwise abused his power while in office. Should Democrats – should citizens in general – not care about that because he won? And yet I see many Republicans, McConnell included, basically saying: The election is over, Trump is president, get over it – as though that’s a good reason to ignore serious accusations of wrongdoing. Want to defend Trump? Go for it. Nothing wrong with that. Just defend him on the merits.

JM

[Proteus_MST]

While in general I agree with the opinion piece, I object to this sentence:

The president isn’t immune from criticism, even if his victory was fair and square

Even though the Mueller report found not enough indications about collusion with russia,
the Mueller report definitely found, that russia meddled with the 2016 election and that certain persons of the Trump campaign willfully cooperated with contacts of the russian government.

I would not call this a "fair and square victory".

Even if we assume that the russian meddling wasn't enough to be the most important fact to guarantee Trumps victory, it is alarming.
Even more alarming is, that Trump also skips over any proofs of russian meddling during the election (and probably leaves the 2020 elections woefully underprepared for possible renewed meddling)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/u...ion-trump.html