Well He Served Himself

Pretty much everyone rationalizes their own bad behavior.

It starts early when toddlers often deny obvious bad actions.

I assume there re psychological theories about this, but in my view it is simply because we are all the central characters in our view of the world and we understand why we did what we did.

We wouldn't do bad things if we considered them bad or if we didn't think the good outweighed the bad.

Of course we might know that the action is viewed as a crime by society but it doesn't outweigh our internal calculations.

Now take the current Impeachment inquiry.  The actions taken are clear and the charges related to those actions are also clear, but fundamentally the other side says how could it be wrong if it was supposed to benefit the incumbent.

There were potentially many more possible charges and counts including obstruction of justice in the Russian probe but in order to move it along it was reduced to two which clearly happened,

Abuse of power when he used the office of the President to pressure a foreign country to investigate American citizens, who were not charged with any crimes in this country.

Obstruction of Congress, well documented by the President's own memo and instructions as well as numerous public statements.

He thinks these actions were OK, after all they were designed to protect him.

What could be more important?

The Disruptive Presidency

So its pretty obvious that at the very least the dontard condoned "dirty" tricks in his campaign.

He also was aware of what was going on and to some extent directed it.

Are these criminal activities, it seems like they violate a number of laws and certainly ethics rules, but I'll wait and see if any charges are filed.

Neither of these things are surprising and we are still waiting to see the report related to obstruction and collusion concerning Russian interference.

I don't see the dontard having any integrity so I doubt he will resign and I'm not sure that helps anything since the vice president is a radical evangelical.

However he was the Governor of a mid-sized State so he must have some awareness of how politics works.

I'm not sure any of this will matter to dontard supporters, they support him partly because he is a loose cannon and they want to see things disrupted.

Certainly he has given them that and his administration is still in the first half.

It may very well sway the mid-terms and it may guarantee a Democratic majority, possibly in both houses.

That could lead to a bill of impeachment and a Senate trial where conviction might not be obtainable.

Would be disruptive though.