If you are in a betting mood, bet that Donald Trump will be impeached. And then bet that, one way or another, impeachment will spell the end of his presidency.
This is not wishful thinking for Democrats who have never liked Trump. This is practical politics, rooted in precedents from past impeachments and in an understanding of the dire circumstance in which Trump and his defenders now find themselves. Impeachment is, at this point, a moral and constitutional duty. But it comes with a political equation, and that equation does not add up to good news for our embattled president.
Trump knows this. That does not mean, however, that he will fold easily, or quickly. At present, the country is evenly divided on the question of whether an impeachment inquiry is wise, or even necessary. A desperate Trump will do everything in his power to exploit this division. He'll seek to defame the whistle-blower who has revealed evidence that the president used taxpayer dollars to strong-arm a foreign leader into taking actions that would benefit his reelection bid. He'll cry “witch hunt.”
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