Eugene Robinson asks a scary question

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71. Earlier this week Terry Gross interviewed Jeffrey Toobin

about the Mueller investigation.

Here's a link to the transcript of the show. http://wwno.org/post/will-mueller-investigation-unearth-crime-legal-reporter-says-its-complicated

But here's the crucial conclusion, which comes at the very end:

So I think, you know, yes, it is an interesting theoretical constitutional question about whether Donald Trump or any president can be indicted. But I think the far more likely outcome of the Mueller investigation is a report to Congress where he essentially dumps the whole problem in Congress's lap and says, this is up to you if you want to impeach. If you do, help yourself. If you don't, help yourself. But that, I think, is both legally, politically and prudentially the right approach for an outside counsel like Mueller.

Given the way the entire Mueller thing is poking along, I think that it's naive to believe that Trump will be brought down, laid low, removed from office. At least not until and unless Democrats get a large majority next year in both houses of Congress. And given the ineptitude of so many in the Democratic Party and especially in the leadership (the railroading of Al Franken being only the most recent example) I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope for that.