Jonathan Bernstein: “It took all of one day after Donald Trump was cleared of criminal liability in the special counsel’s probe for the president to demonstrate exactly why his impeachment has been an on-the-table topic almost from day one.”
“It’s one thing for Trump to congratulate himself on ‘Complete and Total EXONERATION’ even though Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the investigation said no such thing. If the president wants to do a victory lap because he’s not going to be prosecuted – at least for this set of charges – well, that’s a pretty low bar, but he’s welcome to it.”
“On Monday, though, a more alarming strategy emerged. Evidently, the White House now wants to use the story to launch an attack on all of the president’s perceived enemies – calling for critics to be banned from television programs, demanding that various House Democrats lose their committee posts, and even suggesting that those who called for investigations were, in the president’s words, ‘evil’ and ‘treasonous.'”
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