[Fantasywriter]

So if Clapper had been indicted for perjury before the statute of limitations ran out Trump would have been impeached?

Really???

[arthurus]

If there had been a group of early indictments before the Republicans got somewhat tamed, yes, it would have provided the excuse the Republicans needed to do that. It had to wait until the swamp rats pretty much put themselves into indictment and had to wait until Trump's policies got actually popular and had to wait until the Russia BS had evaporated and shown the "investigators" for what they are.

Rapid moves to "drain the Swamp" without carefully building the foundations and without letting the Mueller/Clinton crowd get themselves bogged down in their contradictions and vapor cases would have got that impeachment. People forget that enough Republicans in Congress wanted Trump gone by any means to be sufficient to impeach.

The idea of Trump riding in on his white horse and shooting all the bad guys is appealing to lots of our impatient Freepers but it would have been counterproductive and a last hurrah by conservatives.