A couple of random thoughts.
This report confirms what I have been saying all along, at least IMO. The Russians didn’t start their hacking to help Trump, they started it to hurt HRC. If you remember, Putin hated (and presumably still hates) HRC with every fiber in his body. If you forget the details, see this link (
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/ ... tin-226153 ). It turned into an effort to help Trump once he became the candidate, but since they started, according to Mueller, in 2014, it predates Trump’s entry into the race. Even if HRC still won, as everyone expected and predicted, the Russians were going to make her life difficult if they could. So the question is, would the Russians have offered the same “help” to a Jeb candidacy? The others of course would have done what HRC did with Fusion GPS and gone through their attorneys to distance themselves, being the seasoned pols that they are compared to Trump. But they didn’t start in 2014 saying, “Hey, let’s get Trump elected because he is Putin’s b1tch”.
And the Obstruction thing doesn’t pass the logic test. (Here is where you all jump in and castigate me, so don't disappoint me!!) If there is no crime, what was he obstructing? My analogy would be that you accuse me of helping to rob a store. You report me to the police, who open a two-year investigation. I protest, vigorously, to anyone and everyone who will listen. But everyone hates me, because I live in Steeler country but cheer for the Ravens (not true, but this is for analogy purposes only.) So they all climb on board. The evidence? I was in the store that day, they have security tape of me talking to the robber, and they have no tape of me leaving before the robbery. It turns out I once said the robber was a great guy, just misunderstood. After all, he was my wife’s cousin, he came to our wedding, how bad could he be. So for two years I label the whole investigation a sham, but everyone in town doesn’t believe me. I shout it from the roof tops, I call the mayor an idiot, the police chief a dope, I tell the mayor to fire him (I am head of city council, so I have the right to do this), he refuses, but still they smear me. It gets so bad that there are protesters outside my factory every day, harassing my employees. They camp outside my house, scaring my children. Finally they say I had nothing to do with it, but now they are going to charge me for calling the police chief a dope and trying to intimidate him into stopping his investigation, an investigation into something that didn’t happen. So you might argue I legally interfered, but it doesn’t seem logical, again, just IMO.
A cold beer and a warm woman is all I need to keep me happy. Sometimes a cold beer is enough...