Are there any professional mind readers out there?   If so, your services are desperately needed. Every impeachment is different, but this one is the weirdest of all.  The validity of the impeachment of  President Trump, and whether or not the FBI’s FISA Warrant was legal,  depends on what was on their minds at the time in question.  What were they thinking?

When the FBI used Christopher Steele’s dossier as an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign, did James Comey  know it was a made up report? Did he  actually believe Carter Page was a Russian spy?.  If he was  truly  convinced  Page was a spy, then you can see he  felt justified in spying on the Trump campaign headquarters.

By the same token, did Donald Trump really believe that the Bidens were involved in a huge corruption /scandal in the Ukraine?  If that was his conviction, it would justify his demand for an investigation before we gave the Ukraine  $500 million dollars of  American taxpayer money.  The fact that Joe Biden was a potential running mate would have seemed irrelevant.  We just don’t know what was really on Trump’s mind, and neither does anyone else at this point.

So far, the FBI has gotten a free pass.  James Comey has not been indicted for committing a crime.  But Trump has been impeached by the Congress.

The similarities in the two circumstances are striking.

It’s kind of like someone who’s accused of  involuntary manslaughter. You’re driving in the dark and you see what you think  is a truck parked up ahead.  Not realizing that it’s actually a school bus, you keep going, and kill three school children crossing the highway.  This really happened in Indiana. Therefore, the driver of that car was convicted of murder  and sentenced to 4 years in prison.  The jury decided they knew what was on that woman’s mind.  They convicted her because they believed she knew it was a school bus and didn’t care.  Never mind that it was pitch black outside , she’d just crawled out of bed to take her nephew to a baby sitter, and might have been so sleep deprived that she honestly didn’t know she was bypassing a school bus.

What was really on James Comey’s mind when he used a fake report to get a FISA Warrant? What was President Trump thinking when he asked for the Ukraine/Biden investigation while 75 people listened in? And, incidentally, what was on Joe Biden’s mind when his son landed all those cushy jobs in the Ukraine and China?

All of us can guess, based on our political biases .  But we’ll never really know  what they were thinking.