Take on the lamest Trump defense

Brit Hume has decided the best defense of Trump's Ukraine fall is that it didn't succeed at doing what it wanted At this point everybody knows that Trump
Was trying to shake down the Ukrainians. It something stopped them, maybe it was the whistleblower, maybe the Ukrainians just waited Trump our figuring he'd eventually forget or maybe it was that that the US government is a deep state avoiding Trump from making monumental mistakes that will harm our country

Anyway, Brit seems to think that the act of not competing the crime makes it ok, that's like saying that Watergate shouldn't matter because Nixon won in a landslide anyway