Donald Trump goes off the deep end about President Obama after House Democrats begin impeachment process against him

| 9:10 pm EDT July 26, 2019
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This afternoon the House Judiciary Committee used a court filing to open an impeachment inquiry, thus starting the impeachment process against Donald Trump. This doesn’t mean House Democrats are locked into articles of impeachment, but it firmly puts the whole “impeachment is off the table” false narrative to bed. Trump appears to fully grasp just how serious this is.

It’s not just that Donald Trump spent the day attacking Apple, Google, China, France, and Fox News, in the feeble hope of kicking up enough dust to bump the impeachment inquiry out of the headlines. Trump took things even further than that by announcing his intention to launch some kind of criminal investigation into President Obama’s book deal.

No one seems to have any idea what Trump is talking about (least of all him), and this is the kind of thing that probably won’t actually go anywhere. But it’s a big deal that a sitting President of the United States is calling for what would be an obvious sham of a criminal investigation into his predecessor – and Trump knows it.

It’s fair to say that Donald Trump is going for the nuclear option when it comes to trying to create a temporary, if laughable, distraction today. The kicker is that it isn’t even working. The impeachment inquiry isn’t getting as much media coverage as it should, because it’s being done through a court filing instead of being shot out of a made-for-television cannon. But Trump hasn’t been able to distract from the coverage that it is getting. The impeachment process has begun, and Trump knows he can’t magically stop it.