The race is on to see who can take Donald Trump down first
At this point the question isn’t whether Donald Trump will be taken down, but who’s going to be the first to get him. There is now a line around the block of people who are seeking to be the first to get there. Some of these folks have been seeking to take Trump down all along, and are now finally within striking distance. Others are people who were once loyal to Trump, until they realized that loyalty was a one way street. The list just got even longer.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has long been the obvious candidate to take Donald Trump down. Sure enough, he’s just a few days from putting Trump’s campaign chairman on trial. He just revealed that he’s using Trump’s own tweets to help build the obstruction of justice case against him. He has three of Trump’s key campaign advisers lined up to testify against him as part of their plea deals. But Mueller is no longer the only one in the race to take Trump down.
Michael Cohen is leaking incriminating evidence and now seems intent on taking Donald Trump down all by himself, even if Cohen has to set himself on fire in order to do it. Then there’s Michael Avenatti, who says he has evidence that Trump may have gotten one of his mistresses pregnant. Then there’s whoever leaked the fact that Cohen is willing to testify about Donald Trump knowing about the Trump Tower meeting with Russia in advance. Oh, and SDNY is now using the case against Cohen as an excuse to go squarely after the secrets of the Trump Organization.
Then you’ve even got the people who are now signaling that they may be willing to help take Donald Trump down simply by refusing to help him. The ever-cowardly Paul Ryan and the ever-corrupt Trey Gowdy quickly shot down Team Trump’s attempt at impeaching Rod Rosenstein yesterday. Gowdy and Ryan appear to be afraid of getting caught up in Trump’s criminal obstruction antics, and are content to simply let him drown. As hheis spirals toward his inevitable downfall, Trump is running out of allies by the hour, and gaining enemies just as quickly.
