Why Trump Has Finally Forced the House to Impeach Him

Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images The anticlimactic denouement of the Mueller report produced a mixture of relief and gloating for Republicans. For President Trump it also produced something else: An almost intoxicating sense of impunity, a realization that his attempts to cultivate Russia as an ally, and largely successful efforts to gain control of the Justice Department, gave him carte blanche to plan his next crime.

The most important impediment to impeaching Trump has always been the reluctance of the most vulnerable House Democrats to take a vote that they feared would alienate their constituents. But all the signs are now pointing toward those Democrats throwing aside their reluctance.

It is possible Trump could defuse impeachment by releasing his block on the whistleblower complaint. But surrendering his claims of secrecy and almost unbounded executive privilege run counter to his instinct for domination. It could also quite likely supply evidence incriminating enough to lead to his impeachment anyway. That Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden, and held up military aid to leverage this demand, is a mortal certainty.

But there is at least some reason to believe the politics of the Ukraine scandal will play out differently than the politics of the Russia scandal. The Republican phalanx of support has failed to materialize in its usual strength. Normally passive Mitt Romney issued a surprisingly sharp rebuke, demanding Trump “should make available the whistleblower complaint that has been deemed to be credible and urgent, and that if not “it will be up to the House to decide how to proceed.

jonathanchait I can see Chaits chubby from NJ.

jonathanchait Jonathan usually writes stupidities

jonathanchait Ya impeach satan

jonathanchait What about the Senate? ImpeachmentFAIL

jonathanchait 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 barreling over the Niagra Falls

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jonathanchait Wow, I can see why you pay him the big bucks

jonathanchait Are they tho?

I don’t think so. I think he was still looking down the barrel of impeachment, flew into an uncontrollable rage, and went in search of a way to get payback.

goodasyou It was anticlimactic because Ds can’t frame a narrative to save their lives. All they do is whine about the process. Time for Pelosi to pass the baton to someone who knows how to play the game.

You really think he has the smarts to actually 'plan' a crime? He is just being himself.

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