He focuses early in the piece on one of the major current GOP talking point defenses of Trump — that he was too incompetent to really extort Ukraine and that the military aide was not delayed by more than a few days without that country making any of the concessions that the President wanted to help his reelection campaign.
Bruni wrote the following to highlight the absurdity of that position: "I came to your house with a gun.... I tied you to a chair, took a step back and repeatedly fired. But my arm twitched; every bullet missed. Meanwhile, you slipped your knots and fled."
In Republicans eyes, that would not be a crime. But of course it is, several serious felonies, in fact.
If you intend to commit a crime and try to commit a crime, your failure really isn't that important. Because your intent and attempt demonstrate how you'll just try it again sometime soon if you're not punished in the interim.
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