If Trump Goes Down, He's Taking Everyone With Him

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If Trump Goes Down, He’s Taking Everyone With Him
Frank Bruni

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I wrote last week that the prospect of Trump’s impeachment terrified me, and one of the main reasons I cited was what we’re seeing now: his histrionic response, which is untethered from any sense of honor, civic concern or real patriotism.

He’s not like most of his predecessors in the White House, who had some limits, at least a few scruples and the capacity to feel shame. Their self-pity wasn’t this unfathomably deep, their delusions of martyrdom this insanely grand. “There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have,” he tweeted last week, and the violins have wailed only louder and weepier since.

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There’s light, though, and it’s this: As corrosive as his tirades are, they may also be what does him in. He’s poised to take this persecution complex too far.

Already, there has been a swell of support for impeachment, according to new polls released by CNN and Monmouth University, and I bet that trend continues as revelations of his wrongdoing cascade and as he wildly overreacts.

That probably wouldn’t be enough to get Republican senators to convict him and remove him from office, should the House follow through with impeachment and a Senate trial ensue. But it would affect November 2020.

He’s in a bind, because his burn-down-the-house defense against impeachment makes the best case that he must be impeached — that a leader with no bounds and no bottom can’t be allowed to rage on unimpeded. The impeachment inquiry is laying Trump bare. As scary as that is for us, it may be even scarier for him.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Please.

Please do. Take them all down. For the good of us all.

[jcgoldie]

2. I'm pretty sure he keeps bringing up Pence's involvement as a message to McConnell

Hey Mitch, turn on me and I'll burn all you motherfuckers down.

[malaise]

3. Yes and

[kentuck]

4. Put him under custody of a US Marshall just before the vote to convict.

Then escort him back to NY Trump Tower on AF1.

Drop him off at the door in his limousine.

Get him to sign his release from the US Marshall, in which he agrees to never set foot in Washington DC again, unless invited by the US Government.

[empedocles]

7. Have to guess at least several similiar options have been filed.

[stopbush]

6. When tRump goes down Not if.

[Ilsa]

8. Another indication of his narcissism. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Mentioned this a few days back.

Moscow Don still thinks he can cut a deal and walk away with his treasures plus a few million in a Golden Parachute.

And amnesty from further prosecution.

[gibraltar72]

10. Scorched earth.

[cwydro]

11. Recommended.

I like Bruni.