When Trump goes down, GOP should go with him
Know this: Donald Trump is going down. And when he does, he needs to take the entire Republican Party down with him. With the decision by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel in the investigation of Russian hacking of the election, things are starting to move rather quickly — and not in a good direction for Trump and his people.
This, as Congressman Al Green (D-Texas) fired the first shot across the bow and called for the president’s impeachment on the House floor. All of this is unfolding less than a week after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey for refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the president and make the Russia investigation go away.
Comey kept his notes from those meetings, which also included Trump telling the FBI chief to lock up journalists. With control of the narrative slipping from his hands, this is the beginning of the end, finally, for the worst, most incompetent president in U.S. history.
“Look at how I’ve been treated lately, especially by the media,” President Trump said at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s commencement on Wednesday. “No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.” His statement would have made more sense if Barack Obama — or better yet, Nelson Mandela — had been the one making it.
Now is the time to shut down Trump, and the faux patriotic Republican Party that created him and enabled his corruption, his racism, his destruction of the government and soiling of the nation. It could take years to clean up the mess. The GOP is looking increasingly like a criminal organization that has given free rein to a madman and a gangster and needs to be brought up on RICO charges, or labeled as a hate group and dissolved.
All hell broke loose when, fresh off firing Comey over Russiagate, Trump invited two Russian officials — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, considered one of Russia’s top spies — to the Oval Office. American reporters were not allowed in the closed-door meeting, but the Russian state press was admitted with photography equipment and tweeted the event.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Trump supplied the Russian officials with highly classified intel. In what will surely become known as one of the most bizarre episodes in modern political history, Trump looked like a newly inducted Wiseguy, a “made man” meeting with his sponsors.