An official impeachment inquiry would send Trump completely over the edge.
He is close already.
In the last few weeks, anonymous White House staff have told sources that he has become unhinged, ranting about everything, and nobody can talk to him. They are very concerned.
He did not handle the Hurricane well. Some wondered if he was even getting updates about it, after he made a confusing comment about Alabama? He was commenting on news that was 4 or 5 days old. he was unable to show any empathy for the victims, but that was nothing new.
The job appears to be more than he can handle, mentally. It's difficult when the president is a control freak.
But, if an official impeachment inquiry is announced, it may become more than he can handle? He could lose it. And he is a very unpredictable individual.
Nadler and the Judiciary need to have a very well-planned strategy, if they go down this road? They need a larger list of witnesses to be subpoenaed and they need to be ready to immediately go to the Courts to get their approvals of the subpoenas. They will need to inform the possible witnesses that failure to follow a Court order can lead to fine and/or imprisonment.
They need to follow a very aggressive path to get witnesses in front of them as soon as possible. The Mueller investigation is over and they are still processing the information within the Report. It will still be part of any larger investigation that might happen.
Corruption must be attacked very aggressively. That is what emoluments is about. Money is being made in a corrupt way. They should subpoena the Air Force crewman that were on the last flight to Scotland and find out what they know about the diversion to a Trump business, in my opinion. They should go out immediately. They should do it behind closed doors.
Impeachment must begin now.
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that the OP headline raised, that Trump would respond with increasingly disordered behavior. No doubt they have psychiatrists evaluating him constantly these days, and we know they've been manipulating Trump with push-pull tactics for some time.
They're doing the same with the Republican leadership. Nixon was impeached when the Republicans, both in the senate and maybe a third (?) of their voters, were finally forced by the Democrats to admit he needed to be. This current set is so intensely corrupt that no behavior or crimes could be too damaging to the nation or unprincipled for McConnell and company, but his and their own survival is always an issue for them.
Not to hope too much that Trump himself will continue accelerating our case for removal. Trump isn't insane, and if he doesn't decompensate too much his self-protective instincts will take over. My best guess is with help he'll be able to calm down and pull it in (at least enough to be appear "Normal Trump"
and that he'll be persuaded to take on another Kelly-type chief of staff to restore an appearance of order.
We live in interesting times...
you're forgetting how often Trump is persuaded to do things he doesn't want to do, including backtracking on his own decisions. Very often, often daily, sometimes two or three times a day. In fact, he's famously weak and persuadable, both to the point of being manifestations of disorder.
Dissuaded from things he wants to do -- Previously frequently when Kelly and other handlers were there. Currently a whole lot less, and then often after he's already stepped in it. But like persuading, dissuading has been going on constantly since he was sworn in. SOP for that WH.
So yes. And there'd certainly be nothing new to taking on a new chief of staff. He's had 3 so far, remember, including acting chief Mulvaney, and he famously didn't want any of them. He was persuaded.
KEEPING him persuaded - Now that's a whole different matter. But apparently not always completely impossible.
our grandchildren growing up with this image of America, the oldest are turning 13, and of course the danger that it could become much worse if we don't get control. At least we know what it's supposed to be.
it's been done before. But will we with the current insanity of 40% being manipulated by the worst of themselves, plus other enemies foreign and domestic, to destroy us from within?
Just heard that Tucker Carlson, who'd been advising the POTUS to get rid of his national security adviser (!!), described Bolton as "a man of the left."
Oh, well. Have a nice 9/11.
They need to do it.
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