Testifying under oath-
Michael Cohen: People want to know whether I have evidence of Mr Trump colluding with Russia. I do not. But I have my suspicions.
So we have no new evidence, but more accusations linking the two.
Cohen has already talked at length with the special counsel, so it would be pretty shocking if he were to drop any new revelations on congress first. We already knew that Trump was a liar and a con man, there's nothing new there.
The pattern that I see emerging from all of this is that Russia colluded with the Trumps, but the Trumps were basically too stupid to recognize they were colluding in return. They thought they were just trying to get rich from the whole process, and didn't really consider the legal implications of what they were doing. Russia cultivated them as assets to advance Russian interests, and the Trumps merely played along for personal profit with limited awareness of how they were undermining American interests. It doesn't look like it was a deliberate attempt to disassemble American institutions or weaken western democracy, those were merely the side effects the Russians wanted to see when they chose to intervene in the election on Trump's behalf.
If that emerging picture holds true for the next ten or twenty years, then Trump will be remembered as one of the worst president's in history, a foolish old man who got in way over his head, but more of an American embarrassment than an American traitor.
He's still a criminal and a sexual predator, who should probably face consequences for a whole host of other crimes only tangentially related to Russia, like the obstruction and the campaign finance violations and the tax fraud, but his Russian collusion, while very real, is starting to look accidental. I'm not sure we send people to prison for accidentally betraying their country.
We'll have to see what the Mueller report says, eventually. Trump definitely sought financial gain from Putin, and offered financial gain to Putin, in exchange for changing US policy on Russia, and he actively sought out Russian interference in our election to help him win. That sure looks like textbook collusion but I think Trump just thought it was business as usual. He wasn't prepared to carry the obligations and responsibilities of the office, and he failed miserably to live to up to the expectations we have for presidents. It's kind of what you might expect to happen when you put a grifter from Queens in the oval office, honestly. It's just general fuckery all around.
The saddest part, to me, is how the republican party chose to support this fuckery in order to gain political power. I suspect that will be the greatest lasting consequence of the Trump presidency, how the GOP abandoned all pretense of representing American interests.