James Comey will be testifying on Thursday, where he is expected to testify that Donald Trump ask him to back off on the Michael Flynn investigation.
But now, it appears that Trump also approached top intelligence officials and asked them if they would intervene with the FBI director to derail the Flynn investigation as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html
In normal times, this might strengthen the case for impeachment. But I still believe that the GOP controlled Congress will never start any impeachment proceedings, unless something beyond belief were to be revealed, and I don't see that happening.
Since the Russia investigation has not stopped, the line will be that what Trump did may have been inappropriate and ill-advised but did not actually consist of any crime or rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
But this got me thinking – what if Trump were to be impeached, convicted and removed from office? Many would cheer of course. But there is also a hard-core base that would be of the opinion that the charges were trumped up (no pun unintended) nothing but lies, and that the elite, including the Republican establishment for whom they have no love, illegally removed from office the one man who could save America.
I think these true believer hard-core supporters are in the minority – maybe 20-25%. But that's an awful lot of people. What would the backlash look like?
I'm thinking we might see civil unrest unlike anything we've seen since the 60s and probably larger than that. And unlike the hippies in the 60s, many Trump supporters own guns, carry guns, and believe themselves to be patriots. We might then see something violent and unprecedented since the days of the Whiskey and Shay's rebellions, only not so geographically isolated.
Still might be worth it – but the aftermath of any type of armed civil unrest might be enough to make today's partisan divide look like a lovefest.