(Reader Supported News) — Stunning,” “a Constitutional crisis,” “the beginning of the unraveling of his presidency.” What else can we journalists come up with to avoid, as almost all of us are, reporting outright that President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey smashes down into the middle of Congress’s agenda the tabooable but nevertheless overriding issue of whether to impeach Trump for — just most recently — his abuse of his power by obstruction of justice in the FBI’s criminal investigation of his presidential campaign.
As one New York Times columnist responded at once, “The President of the United States is lying again.” Trump’s claim that he fired Comey because of the way the FBI chief handled the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email scandal is a lie and is shown so by numerous accounts from insiders now characterizing the president as day after day outraged at Comey over his and the FBI’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian agents and agencies to help him defeat Clinton to become our president.
The most obvious fact about the subject of impeaching Trump is that with the Republicans in control, the necessary investigations in the U.S. House that must precede an impeachment vote there cannot likely win a vote to undertake to conduct them. A valuable analysis of the impeachment topic in The New Yorker this month concluded commonsensically that the Democrats should wait until the 2018 election and, if they take the House back then, go for impeachment then.
