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Donald Trump immediately responded to Tuesday’s news of a formal impeachment inquiry with a predictable Twitter rant (“witch hunt,” blah blah blah). But of course—of course—the Twitter tantrum wasn’t over with that.
Trump or his staff spent the late hours of Tuesday night tweeting Fox News clip after Fox News clip—more than half a dozen of them. He then kicked off Wednesday morning with a bout of self-pitying outrage. “Great new book by the brilliant Andrew McCarthy, BALL OF COLLUSION, THE PLOT TO RIG AN ELECTION AND DESTROY A PRESIDENCY,” he tweeted, in a classic attempt to distract from how he and his foreign allies are the ones plotting to rig elections. “Get it, and some other great new books which I will soon be recommending. They tell you about the Crooked Pols and the Witch Hunt that has now been exposed!” “Other great new books which he will soon be recommending” presumably as soon as Fox News tells him what they are.
Trump went on “There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have.” Even the ones who were assassinated? “The Democrats are frozen with hatred and fear.” Um, this Twitter tantrum brought to us by the fact that the Democrats unfroze. “They get nothing done. This should never be allowed to happen to another President. Witch Hunt!” Yeah, as soon as there’s a Democratic president Trump will have very different feelings about whether “this” process laid out in the Constitution of the United States of America should be “allowed to happen” to a president. Except to the extent that his election-rigging efforts make him believe he won’t be seeing another Democratic president.
The desperation is clearly visible in Trump’s bluster. He’s a weak, scared man looking to bully his way out of a problem. Unfortunately he has a major political party getting his back without question, because Republicans care more about partisan power than about what’s good for the U.S. or, heaven knows, than democracy.
Trump’s Twitter rant is ongoing … and probably will be into infinity.