How has Trump not been popped for larceny?

I ask this question as Ambassador William B.Taylor's opening statement to the relevant House committees was released. You can read the full text here, or download a PDF version of it here.

The statement is damning, but that's not what interests me.

Former ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovich was removed because she was seen as a liability in the regime's concocting of a narrative which would make Ukraine the true locus of 2016 collusion with Democrats, and try to take out Vice President Joe Biden as a threat to Donald Trump's re-election next year.

Now, when you take out someone you might think wouldn't cooperate with your corruption, logic dictates that you replace that person with someone more pliable.

However, instead of replacing Yovanovitch with a toady, Taylor—a career State Department official—was put into place.

This is akin to replacing a cop who may be on the take but won't risk herself for you with someone from Internal Affairs.

When those on the left who still wet their pants at Trump's genius wail out, I will point them to this. At a time when you're conspiring to do something illegal, unconstitutional, impeachable, and near-treasonous, you should have people in place who will do your bidding. Instead, the regime put someone on point who has devoted his career to serving the Republic and the Constitution, and was unlikely to have any truck with such machinations.

They're just complete morons. If you believe in a Deity, you should be on bended knee thanking Him or Her for sending Trump. Yes, he's doing much damage, damage which will take years to repair. But imagine if he were at all competent? We really would be looking at a dystopian hellscape.

Given all this, just how has he avoided prison all these years? Is it merely that now he has declined mentally, and surrounds himself with people who are likewise deficient? Anyone who relies on the counsel of Stephen Miller can't be all there to begin with.

But I find it hard to believe that up until 2016 he was, as the poet said, a smooth criminal, and is now a bumbling buffoon who's not in prison solely due to a laughable Department of Justice memo.

Obviously, in his pre-presidential life, he knew who to pay off, or how to hide his tracks better. But once a moron, always a moron. Before the White House, he was just another grifter, although a famous one. As I keep saying, coming down that escalator will turn out to be the worst decision of his life, for him and his family. They will be destroyed by his installation in the presidency. They could have continued being Page Six fodder and lived their lives relatively carefree. Now they will be remembered as traitors to the Republic, shunned by the vast majority of their fellow citizens.

What Taylor details is a conspiracy so laughably and shoddily put together that it beggars belief. If God wanted to teach Americans the perils of complacency, she at least did so just enough to scare us into action, but not enough to end the commonwealth.