Donald Trump just begged Nancy Pelosi to finish him off

| 12:40 pm EDT October 4, 2019
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Donald Trump’s presidency is over. His life is over. He’ll never make it to the end of his term, and he’ll never get out of prison. But like a lot of people whose lives just ended, he’s still clinging to the delusional fantasy that he can somehow get out of this. Now he’s decided on his strategy: make sure his life is destroyed as quickly as possible, and then hope that it magically works out for him.

After Kurt Volker provided the House impeachment inquiry with text messages yesterday that prove Donald Trump was extorting Ukraine in systematic and corrupt fashion in an attempt at rigging the 2020 election, Trump stood on the White House lawn this morning and delivered yet another largely incoherent tirade to the TV cameras. But one part of his message was plenty clear.

Donald Trump confirmed that he and his team are sending Nancy Pelosi a letter demanding that if she’s going to impeach him, she should go and move ahead with the formal process quickly. Trump is literally begging to be finished off as quickly as possible. There are a couple possible reasons for him to be doing this.

The first would be that he and his legal advisers can see that this is getting uglier for him by the day. The longer the House impeachment inquiry goes on, the more evidence of his guilt will be uncovered, the more of his criminal scandals will be exposed, and the more the pro-impeachment poll numbers will rise. Within weeks, Trump could be in a position where Republican Senators conclude they have no choice but to selfishly oust him, in the name of trying to salvage their own personal chances of reelection. But if Trump forces impeachment to move very quickly, and Republican Senators end up voting on impeachment very soon, they’d end up acquitting him. Trump would still be destroyed politically, but he’d try to use it to rally some tiny hope of surviving.

The second possibility is that Donald Trump really does just want his downfall over with. If he’s impeached and removed (as opposed to resigning or losing badly in 2020), he can spend the rest of his life telling himself that he was the greatest president ever, and that it was stolen from him. Of course he’ll go to prison for the rest of his life in this scenario, but perhaps he’s just too far gone to care at this point.