Defending A Criminal

WE NOW KNOW the president's defense, and its a doozy. The whole thing is a hoax, he didn't do it, and even if he did, it aint illegal. The holes are so large a cognitively challenged fourth grader could drive holes through it, which guarantees that the Republican servants of Trump will accept it. Trump's criminal attorney's fail to mention that impeachment and removal need not stem from any specific violation of statutory law, and that "high crimes and misdemeanors" can refer to a persistent pattern of behavior, such as attempting to blackmail a foreign government into providing damaging information of a political opponent. Impeachment is a political, not a legal process. Suppose President Trump, each morning or middle of the night, were to tweet: "I am a fraud." I was elected only with foreign assistance." And then, later: "I care nothing about making America great, now, again, or ever. Or: "Personal wealth, fame, power, and pretty young women are my only interests." Or: "The evangelicals support me only because they are morally bankrupt idiots." In other words, what if the president suddenly started telling the truth? A near impossibility, admittedly, but possible, in theory. Being crazy is not a crime. Trump has long since proven that. He would immediately be impeached, probably with Republican support, for fraud,among other complaints, such as gross abuse of power and of twitter, and it would be argued at his impeachments hearings that he is mentally unfit to serve, as he is in reality, and should be removed according to the twenty fifth amendment. For the sake of Trump's presidency, the Republican party, the evangelical community drunk with anticipation of the rapture, and the white supremacist racist community, the president had better not suddenly become honest about himself. America's reprobate right wing will be much better off if their orange haired icon keeps right on pathologically lying, to the tune of about twenty two gross falsehoods per day. Trump's sycophants seem to enjoy their little fantasy world in which their leader is a consummate Christian, and sane anti-Trump majority America is either used and inured to it, or no longer gives a damn.