By all means, Donald Trump, go ahead and fire the guy
We’re now less than twenty-four hours from the start of televised House impeachment hearings against Donald Trump. If you’re looking for confirmation that he has no defense whatsoever and no idea how to fight back against his own dismantling, just consider what he’s now floating.
Donald Trump’s proxies have just leaked to the New York Times that he’s considering firing Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson. No really, this is what the clown has up his sleeve. He’s going to fire the guy for daring to correctly follow procedure by reporting the whistleblower complaint to Congress. Hey, Trump, go for it, you idiot.
To be clear, it would be a travesty if Donald Trump fires Atkinson, who has done nothing wrong. But it would also gain Trump literally nothing, as he’d be trying to close the barn door months after the horse left. Trump would merely be making Atkinson a very wealthy man once he got done with his wrongful termination suit, at a time when Atkinson no longer has any role to play in exposing the Ukraine scandal anyway.
So this is all Donald Trump has left up his sleeve. He’s leaking that he’s going to vindictively fire a guy who helped expose his criminal scandal. Trump isn’t even firing the guy. He’s just leaking that he’s thinking about doing it, instead of actually doing it. Trump’s presidency is on fire, and it’s becoming more clear by the day that he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison. Yet instead of trying to find a way to save his own life, he’s focused on this nonsense. By all means, Trump, go for it.
