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In reply to the discussion: Biden says that when McConnell refused to join bipartisan statement condemning Russian interference [View all]Caliman73
(11,736 posts)explicitly saying "Okay Donald, we are going to hack the election and install you as president and then you will pay us back with policies toward Russia that are beneficial to me and you"; would have been seen as a political act to sway the election and would have created chaos.
People need to understand that Politics and Law are sometimes separate things. They had intelligence indicating that Russia was meddling in the election, but they did not have Legal Proof that there were any crimes being committed. Interference by the sitting President into the election would have sent shockwaves through society.
What specifically would you have had them do? "corralling Comey" would have been seen as interfering with an FBI investigation, which is what Trump is on the hot seat for doing now. How else should they have reacted that would not have thrown the entire system into turmoil without full legal proof of wrong doing?