Paperwork crimes of Donald Trump

Was Trump involved in the plot to coerce members of Congress to support his stupidly planned plot? Yes. Did either Smith or the Congress do what was necessary to prove it? No. They went after election interference rather than the link to Russia or the violent plot. Prosecutors take the path of least resistance - and that path can be explained away under dirty tricks - just like the perfect phone call with Zaleski.  The actual crime was obstructing missiles to Ukraine as a flavor to Putin. Now the latter is an official act. The documents that Trump took that were classified will be declassified on January 20th. Preventing these from being used against him was why we had an insurrection and have a documents case. 

Official Washington does not like the idea of criminalizing foreign policy. That has been the unofficial policy since the Louisiana Purchase and the raid on the Barbary Pirates. The Supreme Court merely codified what is current practice and has been for over 200 years. 

Again, the cases against Trump were all about bad and fraudulent paperwork - essentially dirty tricks. If the actual knowledge of the violent plot had been prosecuted and the reasons behind it, the charges going away would be a scandal to dismiss. Plots to do bad political theater - especially when both plots (Ukraine and Stopping the Steal) were unsuccessful and entirely pathetic were not seen as important by the Senate Republicans who did not vote to convict.

I have done much better dirty tricks - ones that actually worked and were never noticed. So have most members of the Senate - on both sides.

Is attempting a dirty trick that had no possible way of working really a crime? Voters did not think so. Trump won this election fair and square by expanding his base. I have seen that done too. My career is based on it.