Morford: Trump Impeachment Watch: Punch the F.B.I. edition
Trump Impeachment Watch: ‘Punch the F.B.I.’ edition
He was controversial, he made some dumb errors, but no one doubted his patriotism or concern for the rule of law.
There is only one way to impeach an openly corrupt, inept, incompetent, grossly compromised, Russia-loving, crotch-groping, globally loathed sitting president, and that’s through an act of congress. Correction: A functional, autonomous, fair-minded congress, one largely populated by thoughtful, well-educated representatives of deep integrity, each willing to go to the mat for the sake of the country and the survival of democracy itself. You can see the problem. We have no such thing. The Republican party owns congress right now, is the most grossly power-mad, shamelessly cold-blooded, morally laughable in American history, is chugging Trump’s gross authoritarianism like a vampire sucks blood from a dying child.
This is why it doesn’t really matter, not yet anyway, that a handful of Republicans have expressed moderate-to-melodramatic levels of outrage at Trump’s shocking, brutal firing of FBI director James Comey. Sure, McCain, Flake, Burr are all annoyed, a little mad, might have a bit of sway here and there, make themselves look good. But Mitch McConnell has never seen an opportunity for molesting the American democratic system he doesn’t like. He won’t dare urge his Lord of the Flies-like gang of terrified trolls and rich white guys to take any true action.
What about Rod Rosenstein, the (formerly) well-respected, non-partisan Deputy AG? Could he step up? Order a special prosecutor? An independent investigation? He could. Except he’s the same guy who wrote the shameless lie of a memo that AG Jeff Sessions then used as a pretext to let Trump screw over the American people yet again, and fire James Comey. You following all that? They deeply hope you’re not.
Seems like Rosenstein, merely two weeks into the job, has already been compromised, punched in the gut by Trump. And as the New Yorker’s John Cassidy put it, Trump’s firing of Comey isn’t merely another dumb stunt by an inept leader. It’s far worse than that.
“It amounts to a premeditated and terrifying attack on the American system of government” and possibly “will usher in a constitutional crisis.”
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