And, Just To Really Clinch The Case ...

... here are two news stories from the past week that should help Speaker Pelosi, and the rest of her caucus, understand that we are not in a place in which politicians have room for calculation.  In the first one, T**** threatens, not to subtlely, to use police officers, fire fighters, and even motorcycle gangs to protect himself from his political opponents.  In the second one, his former "fixer," Michael Cohen, raised the possibility of violence breaking out should he lose the 2020 presidential election.

The statement from T**** himself, made during an interview, is hard to evaluate in one sense.  On the one hand, it's made in the course of an interview with Breitbart, a right-wing media outlet, so there's the possibility that he's just throwing red meat to his political base.  It's also possible that, if the reports of his mental decline are true, he's just rambling on about whatever pops into what's left of his mind. 

On the other hand, even if it's just red meat, it's 100% prime.  Maybe 150%.  In my experience, in this hemisphere, the only leaders who go around bragging about having the support of the military are dictators south of the border, and not elected officials north of it.  Given what I know about our armed forces, I can't even begin to imagine them responding to a clearly illegal order from T****.  But I'd hate to have to see them put into that position in the first place.  They and their families have enough to contend with as there is.  And, even though I'm confident that 99 44/100% of our military personnel will always do the right thing, there's always the Jack D. Ripper scenario.  As for the bike gangs, I have no confidence in them at all.

But when you combine T****'s comments with Cohen's testimony before a congressional committee, it becomes impossible not to take the substance of the Breitbart interview more seriously.  Even if Cohen is a confessed perjurer--and he is--he is no longer in a position where he has to lie.  And the fact that his testimony mirrored the interview on the question of T****'s willingness to use violence as politics by another means should frighten anyone into taking action to prevent such a scenario from becoming a reality.

Madame Speaker, too many people have lost their lives in the past decade as a consequence of right-wing political violence.  Calculation at the price of even one more life simply isn't worth it.  Don't calculate, and don't legislate.  And don't investigate if the main purpose of doing so is to spin the wheels of the House and let someone else do the job that the Constitution has given to you and your members to do.

Impeach T****.

NOW.