As all of Washington—and the country—await the conclusion of Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe, which could come at any moment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put words last week to the as-yet-unspoken consensus on Capitol Hill: Impeaching the president will be a high bar.

“Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it,” Pelosi told The Washington Post last week.

The comment, like so much of the Trump era, hit Washington as shocking but not surprising. It was in many ways a classic “Kinsley gaffe,” as columnist Michael Kinsley once labeled any gaffe when a politician inadvertently tells the truth, because her comment was obviously, demonstrably true. While the House could move to impeach the president, his conviction and removal by the Senate would require the cooperation of numerous Republicans. The political reality, as Pelosi’s comments acknowledge, is that nothing about Trump thus far has moved the GOP substantially in that direction.

After all, the Republican Party has clearly decided that the hush money payments Trump directed—a serious campaign finance felony violation—are “not worth it.”

The campaign finance conspiracy to buy up the rights to the stories of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal is far from the paperwork mistake that the GOP has painted it to be—it goes directly to the legitimacy of the electoral system. Michael Cohen has already shown the world evidence that makes clear the knowing involvement of the president in this scheme while he was in the White House. The president would almost certainly have been indicted personally except he’s in office, which leaves some gray area about his ability to face prosecution.

Similarly, the GOP has decided that the criminality surrounding the president is “not worth it.” For them, the fact that the man who promised to hire “the best and most serious people” has instead proven himself so incompetent a manager and leader that he’s been taken advantage of by nearly everyone close to him is not cause for concern.

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In seemingly any other time, Mueller’s exposé of the sheer greed and criminality at the heart of the campaign would have been enough to upend a normal presidential administration. Because even if Mueller never shows a Russia connection to Trump, the special counsel and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have already shown that Trump’s 2016 presidential bid was the most criminal campaign in the history of US politics, a collection of grifters working on the sly to advance their own financial interests at the expense of the United States.

To recap, the campaign chairman and deputy campaign chairman were involved in a decade-long, $65 million money-laundering scheme that defrauded the US government, banks, and taxpayers while they worked on behalf of pro-Russian interests, a conspiracy that continued right through the campaign. Meanwhile, the campaign’s national security adviser was working as an unregistered foreign agent of the authoritarian government of Turkey, and the president’s longtime adviser and lawyer was also involved in his own years-long bank and tax fraud around taxi medallions.

Such activity is not only criminal, it shows a massive disregard for the normal course of politics, societal norms, and American values. This was a campaign filled with people who were touting warm, sugary apple pie on the trail while selling slices out the back door to foreign governments and telling tax authorities that the pie plate was entirely empty.

Lastly, the GOP has clearly decided that potential kompromat on the president is “not worth it.” Because, again, we know that Donald Trump, while campaigning for president, was engaging in business negotiations with the highest levels of Russian government—and then lied about it to the American people for two years, lies that Russia clearly knew were false, leaving him exposed to massive counterintelligence risk.