All we heard during the impeachment inquiry and the senate trial was the dems should have taken it through the courts. Now they shouldn't go through the courts. Which is it or does it depend on which outcome might favor the donald?
Don't you want to know if he owes saudi arabia and or russia millions? I do. Trump is a con man, of course he's cheated on his taxes, hell he cheats at golf. Precedent, remember that word? Another kicked around by the right during the impeachment. Trump has broken all kinds of precedents and the right doesn't care. Yeah, I do want to know if my president is a crook.
Who was saying that? Nobody. In fact, most conservatives have long held the view that independent or special counsels that operate outside the authority of the President (in whom is vested the complete power of the Executive branch) as violating basic Constitutional arguments, and that what had nobody in the Executive branch has any business conducting an impeachment inquiry of the President.
If the Congress wants to investigate, fine, if they want to impeach for failure to cooperate, fine, but what they do NOT have the right to do is insist upon unfettered power for an independent functionary within the Executive branch to do that work for them.
The courts should stay out of political disagreements between the other two branches. If the Executive refuses to turn over documents, or make officials available for testimony, the House or Senate has constitutional powers to retaliate, and ultimately to punish if it is seen as hampering a legitimate constitutional function of the Congress, and the people should be the ones to determine if Congress is overreaching or the President is.
As for Trump breaking all sorts of precedents, so did Obama. In fact he was slapped back by UNANIMOUS court rulings on a historically shocking frequency. For every single personal criticism and violation of precedent you can find against Donald Trump, I can point to still revered prominent Democrats who did the same, or worse. Furthermore, if ever there were a president who was elected for the very purpose NOT conducting business as usual, it was Donald Trump.
And Trump's actual POLICIES (despite his often obsequious rhetoric) have been much tougher on Russia than Obama's (the policies that Hillary implemented as his Secretary of State).
The whole Russia thing was simply part of the sad mental breakdown of the people who smugly insisted that it was simply not possible for Trump to get elected coping with the fact that they were just wrong. Rather than accept their own failure to understand the electorate, they cast about desperate to find some exogenous reason to explain away Trump's victory. In 100 years, it will likely be in psychology texts as a case study in denial and cognitive dissonance.