We didn’t need a “special counsel” to tell us President Trump had not colluded with Russia to help him win the 2016 election. If a high-level Department of Justice official, a federal judge, or practically anyone with a law degree had been assigned the collusion investigation, he or she would have recognized Trump’s innocence from the start. And declared, “There’s no case here.”

Indeed, there was none: no evidence of a crime, no serious leads, nothing to suggest an indictment or impeachment would soon follow. True, Trump had foolishly boasted to an interviewer he had fired FBI Director James Comey to rid himself of the Russia probe. But that didn’t change the lack of facts on the ground.