Gee whiz.
There's just so many places where it could start to fall.
There are the innumerable violations of the emoluments clause, where he and his family are enriching themselves, including with gifts from foreign powers. Visiting officials stay at his hotels at exorbitant rates in order to curry favor, trade deals are made that are favorable to his and/or Ivanka's businesses, and he charges the government huge sums of money (secret service lodging, etc.,) every time he goes on one of his golfing weekends at one of his resorts.
There are the uses of the office designed to punish his "enemies," including removal of security clearances to those who might speak out against him and pursuing the post office to double Amazon's postal rates. He has taken to Twiter countless times to bully and berate public figures, and most shamefully, private citizens.
He has proposed executive actions based on discrimination against religion (the Muslim Ban) and has sided with racists to the point of inciting violence. It includes also ginning people up to come after the free press. He does not respect civil rights, nor the constitutionally protected freedom of the press. He may worship an inflated view of the Second Amendment, but he opposes the First Amendment with every word and action he takes. He took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. He's not doing that.
He has revealed classified information to foreign powers. He ends or abrogates treaties. He arrogantly tongue lashes our democratic allies while heaping praise on the world's worst dictators. His trade war has backfired spectacularly.
He has not hired the best people. He's hired a motley group of incompetents and con artists, who seem to have only two purposes. One is to aggrandize themselves, and the other is to destroy the agency they work for.
There is the Russia probe. Not a lot can be said until the Mueller probe is complete. It's clear that the Russians interfered with our election (and that they are interfering in 2018 and have every intention to in 2020). It's clear that they did so to elect Donald Trump (Putin has said as much). The level of Trump's knowledge and involvement has yet to be fully determined. What there is no mystery on is that Trump has been obstructing justice in this case, as openly and as publicly as anyone ever has.
I could go on and on. But right now, none of these look like the first domino to start the cascade to the end of the Trump Presidency. That appears to be a porn star and her lawyer. I don't know what to say. First Trump's fixer falls in the hush money case. Then the National Enquirer publisher who has been hiding dirt on Trump for at least two decades, with a safe full of secrets, has been given immunity. This is quickly followed by Trump's personal money man, his green eyeshade guy granted immunity as well. His fixer, his press protector, his financial guy .... all now cooperating with authorities. And what can Trump do? Squeal about rats and flippers, like he was Jimmy Cagney in a mob movie.
The domino is tilting heavily, my friend. And when it starts to fall, it should begin to take out the rest.
One by one.
They all fall down.
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