Originally Posted by
verminaard
Trump, and most of the people associated with him, are definitely white collar criminals. Any investigation into their business activities was bound to uncover a lot of white collar crimes, which is exactly what happened.
That is all tangential to whether there was any meat on the "Russian collusion" bone.
Based on how this all played out I think there is nothing on the "Russian collusion" bone, and most of the players pushing that narrative knew that going in. But they also knew they would find plenty of other shit, which they did, and on top of that, Trump broke the law actively trying to cover up that other shit.
And the only reason he isn't in a jail cell right now is because he is president. Although if he wasn't president Congress would have never gotten the authority to investigate him like that, so kinda circular. But at the end of the day he knew he was a white collar criminal, and decided to run for President anyways, so he kinda got what he asked for.
You get away with stuff for so long, and pretty soon you being to think you really are teflon and can get away with anything. It is just how human psychology works, especially with narcissists. Same story over and over.