Donald Trump's Paths All Lead Down
Here are four things the president capable of anything could very well do as the walls close in on him.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
05.18.17 1:00 AM ET
The president is a caged and cornered animal.
Forget his statement about how “I look forward to this matter concluding quickly,” and know that he has to be livid about the appointment of Robert Mueller as special prosecutor, in the middle of a week when he’s already bouncing off the walls. People are talking impeachment and 25th Amendment scenarios seriously now. I still remember clearly the hour when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, and ABC’s Sam Donaldson said “this presidency could be numbered in days.” We’re probably not at that point yet, but a couple more of these bombshells, and we could easily be talking weeks.
Trump will not just take this. He’ll do… something. And can anyone now doubt that that something could be anything? There is no act he isn’t capable of. Here are four scenarios.
1. He tries to start a war. Obvious, hoary, cliched, yes; but Trump himself is all of those things in spades. North Korea is the first choice of a target, maybe ISIS. It’s a surefire way to get the press and the other losers off his back and get the country to rally to his side.
No, actually, it’s not. No one outside Republicans will rally to him in an obvious Wag the Dog situation. And then there’s this to think about: Would the generals carry out his orders under such a circumstance? If it were obvious that Trump was just doing this for political reasons, they would not. To go back to 1998 again, everybody laughed at Bill Clinton when he ordered a bombing raid on Iraq the very night the House voted articles of impeachment against him. But I think most people now accept that Pentagon brass would never, ever approve a military action ordered by a president to save his political skin. They’d quit first.
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