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Originally Posted by crimedopay420
+1. Why the **** are dems and reps agreeing on Mueller? They can't both be right, right?
It's a little win win for republicans (probably in hindsight for them). If Trump truly is innocent, a non-partisan neutral arbiter will declare it so and the dems can't attack the decision like they could if the republican led congressional committees declared it so. If Trump is guilty, well that sucks for them, but then they don't have to pander to the base anymore to protect him, since, again, a neutral arbiter has turned up evidence, and they get President Pence, or Possibly President Ryan, or hysterically President Hatch.
Edit: This is why nobody on the Dem team should want Trump impeached/forced to resign prior to the 2018 midterms (unless you are legit scared of him causing the end of hte world which I guess is possible), because if dems can retake the house there is an extremely outside chance that they get the presidency if Pence turns out to be tied up in this as well.
Edit Edit: Although this has an extraordinarily low chance of happenning, the irony of Donald Trump colluding with the Russians to stop the first female president from occurring (a centrist democrat at that), only to lead to President Nancy Pelosi in 2019 would be rich.