Originally Posted by
time4fun
If this were just about financial crimes, candidly, I would agree with you. Do I think that we should let a criminal stay in office? No. Do I think we should remove them before we've proven they're a criminal? No.
But a core part of what's going on right now is about figuring out if Trump is a Russian asset. "Wait and see" is a LOT less compelling in that case.
And we have enough publicly available evidence at this point to say that yes, Trump is likely, at best, an unwitting asset and, at worst, very much a willing asset. The lies about the $300m Trump Moscow Tower while the campaign was going on (including the $50m penthouse that was being given to Putin) coupled with the well-documented willingness of the campaign to accept Russian help only has so many explanations.
Couple that with the fact that Trump put an inordinate amount of energy into defending Putin and trying to obscure the fact that Russia had attacked our elections (to the point where he was publicly denouncing our own Intelligence community in favor of Putin's word), and the fact that Trump immediately tried to roll back Russian sanctions (which, by the way, affected Trump Tower Moscow), and there is only one actual explanation for what was going on.
And if anyone wants to posit a reasonable alternative explanation for these things, I'm all ears.