US Dems ‘Almost Guarantee Second Trump Victory' With Toothless New Probe

The latest move by the US House Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation into allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of justice by US President Donald Trump is actually a huge "trap" for Democrats themselves, Jim Kavanagh, editor of thepolemicist.net, told Sputnik.
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"This is a trap that the Democrats have gotten themselves into now," Kavanagh told Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear on Monday. "They control the [US] House [of Representatives], they've ginned up all this excitement over this… their base expects them to do something, and they want to impeach Trump, but they're not going to be able to impeach Trump."

"There's nowhere to go with this; they know that an impeachment either leads to defeat… or success, which is going to give them [US Vice President Mike] Pence," he added.

​"It's really very strange what they're trying to do," Kavanagh said. After years of trying to track down collusion, and breathless reporting on the hunt, suddenly, ahead of what does indeed promise to be a "disappointing" final report, the investigation was never about collusion at all, some mainstream outlets are trying to convince readers.

"What he's trying to do is to say… ‘It's your fault for thinking this had something to do with collusion,'" Kavanagh said. "This guy at least, and most people on the Democratic side, are going to switch the thing and say, well, ‘Oh [Mueller] can't prove collusion, but that was never the point.'"

According to Kavanagh, even if Democrats can't get Trump on collusion, it's highly likely that they're going to go after POTUS on campaign finance violations linked to hush payments made prior to the 2016 presidential election to Trump's alleged mistress Stormy Daniels.

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