I get that, I'm not stupid. But it's not equal to no evidence which is the GOP narrative they are trying to drive home.
Agreed, but it'd not a smoking gun with their fingerprints on it either. Remember the circumstantial evidence of the 400,000 Clinton E-mails on Wiener's computer? That was going to prove Hillary was a crook right?
Not true. People can be convicted on circumstantial evidence, happens all the time and it's not a main issue the Innocence Project finds with false convictions. Rather false confessions and erroneous witness identification top the list.
Actually very true. Just because people can be convinced by circumstantial evidence doesn't make it proof. What it shoes id that lawyers are good at convincing people to believe that where there is smoke there is fire, and if there is a huge amount of smoke there, then there must be a really big fire, and since little Jimmy has a box of matches he must have lit it.
These are two different issues, one, will the GOP controlled legislature successfully snuff out an independent investigation?
Unless there is unimpeachable evidence of collusion presented, I suspect the answer will be yes.
And, two, who says the evidence isn't steadily mounting?
No one, but then no one outside of the FBI truly knows what they have, or don't have as the case may be.
I ask you the same question I asked Jules, 'so your problem is mounting circumstantial evidence isn't mounting fast enough for you despite the fact it has been steadily increasing?
It has nothing to do with the speed, it has to do with the quality and the sources. Anonymous sources about something that might be, and meetings that could have been about this, or that or something else entirely.
The Right spent much of Obama's terms tilting at windmills, from the Birth Certificate to Benghazi, to the E-Mails, they were so sure that they were just about there, just needed one more report, one more little bit of information, and each time a News Story or a rumour came out they were positive, positive that this would be either the "Impeach Him" or the "Lock Her Up" moment for sure, and every time it fell flat.
In the same way I did them, I advice the Left to be caution. Yes there might be huge boot prints in the mud, yes cows might be missing. But before you strap on your armour and jump on your horse to ride out against that crouching giant over there, just let the investigation happen and make sure it really is a crouching giant and not another windmill, Señorita Quixote.
