It is being gathered. Please provide your reliable source that "this isn't what happened."
If this was a Democrat President in exactly the same situation, would you and Republicans down there say that it is clearly a plot to end the Democrat President's time in office? Nope. They would oppose that President no matter what. Political division and the media are a big part of things in the USA right now. And it is the trickle of both evidence and Trump's tweets that have kept this "scandal" going. I don't see that trickle ending until a deluge of evidence is poured out in court and for the public. Mid-term elections are next year and I see a big-crash for Republican numbers in Congress - which will make the passing of Republican laws even more difficult than they are today. Impossible.