For nearly a year now, or arguably two, everything to do with Donald Trump has been reported as a major scandal, the death spiral, the bombshell, the walls crumbling, or the beginning of the end. I admit to saying death spiral once or twice myself, but my death-spiral-sensor timing was off. (Anthony Scaramucci does that to a man.) Like Trump, I blame everyone else for this. Everyone around me is freaking out, so I have to join in sometimes. There’s also a hot, if competitive, market for the end of Trump. Trump is reliably unhinged, so the evidence is always at hand.

But today’s quick take will be an attempt, not the first, to talk people down. The week started with an indictment of Paul Manafort and one of his associates for what looks like obvious corruption. It was accompanied by the indictment of low-to-mid-level campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who seems to have done nothing illegal before perjuring himself to the F.B.I., which he seems to have done blatantly and idiotically. (Spare some sympathy for a young ambitious guy whose career has been ruined over this.)

Then came articles suggesting, again, that Attorney General Jeff Sessions must have committed perjury when he told Senator Al Franken back in January that he “did not have communications with the Russians.” Or when he later said, “I have never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election. Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign.” Since Papadopoulos was in touch with Russians, and so was campaign adviser Carter Page, then Sessions, goes the argument, was perjuring himself.

All of this is, once again, overblown. It’s not the end of Donald Trump. It’s not the end of Jeff Sessions either. And it shouldn’t be. At least not over this.

Trump has many fights left to fight, and if there’s evidence that he colluded with Russia in any meaningful way, it has yet to emerge in the form of anything that people once seemed to expect. Trump could be ousted from office for all sorts of reasons—including that of losing his sanity altogether, a risk that on some days seems acute—but coordination with Moscow seems less and less likely to be the reason, not more so. (Obstruction of justice remains a greater threat.)

But let’s go to Jeff Sessions. Yes, Sessions heard, and shot down, a suggestion from Papadopoulos of setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin—something that obviously wouldn’t be secret, were it to take place. It’s hardly a discussion of “interference.” As for this week’s CNN headline blaring that “Carter Page testifies he told Sessions about Russia trip,” the trip Page took in the summer of 2016, shall we recall who else, besides Jeff Sessions, knew that Carter Page was taking a trip to Russia? You. Me. Everyone. It was extensively covered at the time and soon after. Page’s speech is available on YouTube. Sessions would have been insane to try to hide it.

There’s a grand irony to all of this. Liberals hate Jeff Sessions for being an ally of Donald Trump. Donald Trump hates Jeff Sessions for not being enough of an ally to Donald Trump. If the ruckus that liberals raise manages to get Sessions to resign or be fired, the person happiest about it will be Donald Trump.