He wished for it, right?

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

During the campaign trail, Trump told Hillary during a debate between the two that if he became president, he'd appoint a special investigation into her wrongdoings.

Now he's got just that.

Robert Mueller is a nightmare for Trump, because he'll have much more powers to investigate into the president's ties to Russia than Comey would ever have, what with the FBI director being a political position that could be influenced.

Of course it's too early to talk of impeachment, if anything comes out that is. The Democrats should be very careful about playing that card, because it could seriously backfire on them if they overplay it (just think the Clinton impeachment case and the way it burned the GOP).

Whatever happens, I think the key to Trump's future is in his own party people. If they consider him too toxic and too big a liability, they'd get rid of him themselves, and place the much more conventional (and controllable) Pence.

Comments

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

I don't actually think the democrats are overplaying this and am amazed at how quickly the executive branch seems to have gotten itself in deep trouble. If Mr. Comey was fired to impede the investigation, it's probably obstruction of justice and an impeachable offence. It seems that several of Mr. Trump's people tried to get Mr. Comey to stop the investigation, or dumber yet, to get other people to get Mr. Comey to stop the investigation. If this can be proven, they face prison time... unless of course they can make a deal. Since very few of them strike me as the kind of folks who would be willing to go to prison to protect the President, I expect the first few investigations will spawn more investigations. Perhaps starting out the presidency by making enemies of the intelligence establishment wasn't such a great idea.

[garote]

What! He never made enemies of the intelligence establishment, OR the press! That's all just Fake News!

(rimshot)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

If I were in charge, I'd just keep it bubbling on the back-burner until the last 12-18 months of the Donald's term. That's when they can really make it count. And that means if the Repubs want to remove the Donald beforehand, to give Pence a good run-in, they have to do it themselves, with all that implies.