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https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-machine-trump
Make no mistake: Comey’s testimony was effectively the first hearing into what will surely become the impeachment of Donald J Trump. Such proceedings must ultimately take place in the House, but Comey has laid the foundations of the next several years of Trump’s Russian saga.
How can you tell the impeachment machine is warming up? By watching the Republican senators in action.
When faced with the news that their country was under Russian attack, these august members of the world’s greatest deliberative body rushed to defend their most precious possession: not American values, but their very own Donald Trump.
Most of them were primarily concerned to get Comey to say that he wasn’t investigating Trump himself. Some of them insisted that Trump’s obstruction of justice was no big deal because the FBI was such an awesome institution it couldn’t be swayed by a few casual words from a former real estate developer.
Except for the fact that Comey was sitting in front of them as an unemployed civilian, recently fired by Trump for that same Russian saga.
Then there were a handful of Republicans who wanted to talk about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Yes, we’re looking at you, John McCain, the Senate maverick who hates Vladimir Putin but somehow hates Hillary more.
The Republican reaction was as great a curiosity to behold as Trump’s infatuation with Putin’s Russia. As James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, told the Australian press this week: “I have had a very hard time reconciling the threat the Russians pose to the United States with the inexplicably solicitous stance President Trump has taken with respect to Russia.”
We all have had a really hard time with this one. No wonder Clapper also said that Watergate pales in comparison to Trump’s collusion with Russia and the firing of Comey.
And that’s where Trump made his biggest mistake. Because James Comey is an elite athlete of Washington and Donald Trump, well, isn’t.