A failure to anticipate

Reading the Mueller report, one of the things that strikes me is how inadequately prevailing laws anticipate what the Trump campaign did.

It should be trivial to agree that what the campaign did was wrong; after all, it knew of an attack against this country, failed to alert the government of the attack, and sought to benefit from the attack.

But the agency laws don’t fit the offense, the campaign finance laws don’t fit the offense, and the conspiracy laws don’t fit the offense.

So: Does all of that mean, as Trump seems to think, that there wasn’t any offense? Not in my book. What it means is conduct that was so low and unprecedented that Congress failed to anticipate it.

I do think, as I have said previously, that Trump et. al. gave aid and comfort to an enemy; the campaign committed treason.

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