"Aside from the nauseatingly familiar Washington corruption of the Manafort/Podesta stripe, the Great Russia Probe of 2016-2018 (and onwards) has morphed into the even more nauseatingly familiar Washington sex scandal."

Roger L. Simon writes in PJ Media,

Now that Robert Mueller and his merry band of wannabe Inspector Javerts have revealed much of their hand, we can see more clearly what their investigation is all about. Aside from the nauseatingly familiar Washington corruption of the Manafort/Podesta stripe, the Great Russia Probe of 2016-2018 (and onwards) has morphed into the even more nauseatingly familiar Washington sex scandal.

If we are to believe legal-eagle Jonathan Turley--and why not; he seems pretty competent--Donald Trump's most serious problem (possibly rising to obstruction) is not Russia collusion, whatever that is, but the hush money payoffs he evidently ordered for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

...We can't know for sure, but as many as half (possibly more) of our presidents have had extramarital affairs, seamy and otherwise. And, yes, there were payoffs -= some of which we know about and some of which we undoubtedly don't.

Just from WWII until now: FDR (a lifetime affair with Lucy Mercer), Dwight Eisenhower (his chauffeur Kay Summersby), JFK (too many to count, notably Judith Exner and the Mob, not to mention Marilyn), LBJ (also multiple, including possible child out of wedlock), and--needless to say--Bill Clinton. There are plenty of rumors about others, most sensationally that Kennedy and Gerald Ford bedded the same East German spy. I'm not prepared to say it's untrue. (Talk about Russia collusion!)

...So now we have Donald Trump trying to cover up a couple of consensual liaisons, one with a porn star and one with a former Playboy model. Tacky, for sure, even creepy and morally repellent, but, as I said, humdrum.

Nevertheless, they are trying to get Trump impeached (the obvious goal of the investigation, not anything to do with Russia) for using campaign funds for these payoffs. They do this in full knowledge of the obvious -- that the businessman himself had put millions of his own money into his campaign, so the funds were originally his in the first place. Indeed the sums he donated to his campaign undoubtedly dwarfed the payments to the two women.

Still, the implication of the investigators, I suppose, is Donald never would have paid off these ladies if he hadn't been running for office. I imagine Melania Trump would have something to say about that.