If a visitor to earth saw tapes of Donald Trump's infamous Trump Tower press conference last Tuesday and Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA-28) Sunday interview with CNN, it would astonish the visitor to learn that the two men were members of the same species, let alone the same sphere of influence, national politics. Schiff's calm reasoned discourse and soothing tone is such a startling contrast to Trump’s histrionics and wild gesticulations. If the eyes are the windows of the soul, Trumps were portals onto some fevered high strung hellscape, whereas Schiff’s evoked images of blue skies and sea gulls tranquilly flying beside a ship zipping blithely through green-white foam.
CNN's Jake Tapper began the interview with, "Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Jackie Speier, tweeted, "POTUS is showing signs of erratic behavior and mental instability that placed the country in grave danger. Time to invoke the 25th amendment." That's the amendment that would allow the removal of the president. Do you agree that President Trump is mentally unstable?"
“I certainly think there’s an issue with the President’s capability. There’s some attribute of his character that makes him seemingly incapable of introspection, and a broad understand of what the country really needs, and I think it’s a question people are asking. What is going on with this president? What can explain this kind of behavior?
It began at the very beginning, Jake. I remember when he had won the election and within days seemed to suggest that the only reason that he didn’t win the popular vote was that millions of people came to the country and illegally voted, and I thought to myself, ‘Oh, my God. This man is not only not going to grow with the job, but is willing to state things that are patently untrue.’
I’m convinced that if you took somebody off the streets of America, and you said, you’ve just become president, but here’s the deal, you didn’t win the popular vote. They would have the common sense to say look, I’m going to do everything that I can to win over everyone. I realize many people, indeed most people didn’t vote for me, but he didn’t do that. He’s not capable of doing that. I don’t understand why, but I do understand what a serious problem it is, and I think more than when I say it or when Jackie Speer says it, the fact that Bob Corker now says things along the same lines shows a broadening recognition that there are some serious issues with our president that aren’t going to go away that aren’t going to get better, and indeed, with the pressures of the job may very well get worse.”
This is the whole thing if you care to give a listen.