Now begins the crisis stage of the Trump presidency

[mia]

...We should all be grateful for the speed and apparent rigorous professionalism that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has brought to his investigation of Russia’s subversive involvement in our election. It will make it a good deal harder and a good deal less credible when Trump turns on him personally, which seems almost inevitable. The charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime business partner Rick Gates have now set in motion the first, if not the final, crisis in Donald Trump’s presidency.

The medical meaning of the word “crisis” is useful here, as an inflection point in a process of a disease. It is the threshold where things turn better, or worse. What it is not is government as usual. The Trump presidency has been an impeachment waiting to happen. Trump knows it, and is ready to start a scorched-earth protection of himself whenever needed. How do we know this? Have you been paying attention to who he is and how he behaves?

...This process will lead either to the orderly removal of Donald Trump from office, or a newly empowered and vengeful Donald Trump.

Neither scenario will be pretty. The second scenario is nothing but terrifying.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2017/10/30/now-begins-the-crisis-stage-of-the-trump-presidency/?utm_term=.a31b00ef8396

[Wounded Bear]

1. I really hope there is somebody between Trump and the football...

[dalton99a]

2. The cornered rat will go into full slash-and-burn mode

[smirkymonkey]

3. That is what terrifies me.

He is not going to go down without taking a whole lot of his "enemies" with him.