Rumors abound that the Trump White House is finally panicked enough about one of Donald Trump's apparent crimes to perhaps do something about it. Or, more accurately, it's the House move to open a formal impeachment inquiry that has Trump's team panicked—it appears that only a single whistleblower was panicked about the actual crime part to take action, while the rest of the administration was doing its bang-up best to both further it and conceal it.
CNN is now reporting that the White House is considering assembling a new crisis-management team to strategize and coordinate the administration's impeachment response. At the apparent top of the list for leading this new team, it reports, is 2016 Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
Go for it.
Last seen getting his behind handed to him by House Judiciary Committee counsel Barry Berke as he attempted to again stonewall the congressional investigation into Trump's acts to limit or quash Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election interference, Lewandowski would split his time between being the top White House impeachment strategist and appearing as a subpoenaed witness himself, which might indeed simplify things.
The choice of the up-to-his-armpits Lewandowski as impeachment team leader isn't a done deal, though: Other strategies are also being considered. It's furthermore dependent on staff being able to convince a raging Donald that he needs a strategy to begin with—and good luck with that.
"[S]ome people close to Trump believe he is in denial about the gravity of his predicament," the authors note dryly, "and it is still not clear whether the President is ready to acknowledge he needs such a team."
It's not clear the president even knows what day of the week it is at this point. The man is 80% grievance and 20% tweets. If a House impeachment investigation so much as steals a single hole of golf from the man, all past bets as to what he might or might not do are off.