Donald Trump has 3 primary strategies for protecting himself during this investigation. First, he lies in the most extreme manner possible. Second, he attacks in the most crude and vile way he can anybody he views as a threat to himself in this investigation. Third, he accuses those he views as threats to himself during this investigation of crimes (mostly which he himself actually did commit) without any evidence.
This infuriates me. At times it concerns me. However, reality settles in and calms me down and brings peace to my spirit. Remember, even his most rabid supporters do not view him as honest. The vast majority of voters view him as extremely dishonest. This includes a healthy amount of republicans. Only 25% of all registered voters voted for him. Almost 100 percent of voters view him as dishonest ; however, 25 % of registered voters, his most rabid supporters, will argue for things he says even though they know how dishonest he is. His lies are not believed. He has lost all credibility with the American public, by and large. As bad as it is that he lies so often and as much as it worries us that he is using the office to push out so many lies, it ultimately hurts him. More and more people have some evidence that disproves as a lie something he said. The more you lie and the more blatantly you lie, the greater the number of people who have proof you are a liar.
He is also crudely insulting those whom he views as threats. His goal is to reduce the stature of those who give information that damages him. However, the more people that he attacks, the more likely he is to attack somebody that a voter respects or likes. Furthermore, in courts of law, the people surrounding him, those who make up his team, are being convicted of crimes. That holds weight in the minds of all but the insane. The people he is attacking are not being convicted of crimes. They are not being investigated as he is by a special prosecutor. All reputable media sources are distinguishing between him as a person under investigation for serious crimes with serious evidence and the people he is simply insulting or making up false charges against. The people who give him credence make up a small percentage of the populace. The people who give the sources of noise like Fox News and Info Wars credence are a small percentage of registered voters. Therefore, he is not increasing the percentage of voters on his side in this fight. He is not persuading anybody new and he is losing people all the time.
Furthermore, he cannot change the truth. His claims are not winning over more people. The prosecutions are moving forward. The investigation is moving to a close. The evidence is what the evidence is. And it is such that the House of Representatives are not going to be able to avoid impeaching him. And when that happens, then day after day there will be mountains of evidence put forward and witnesses paraded and pictures of his family, friends, campaign team members, and his White house who have already been pronounced guilty or confessed their own guilt. When so many people surrounding him have pleaded guilty or been pronounced guilty in a court of law, then that will affect how the watching public views thing itself. Thing is the one, after all, which benefited from the crimes. Thing is the thing at the top of the chain as the occupant. These will be watched by the overwhelming number of voters. The proof is undeniable. The republican senators will understand that the public will be moved by the evidence and the faces of the guilty. Already 49% of the voters support impeachment, 9 % more than in Nixon’s case when he was confronted. These Republican Senators will see where this is going and pressure Trump to resign or they will tell him that they will convict him. They will do this when they understand the impact that the live impeachment trial will have upon them for supporting trump and having trump at the top of the ticket. At that point, Trump will not run for reelection and they will have to vote to convict him.
The number of senators who will vote for conviction now is not the number of senators who will vote for conviction at that time. The crimes are too serious and the evidence too compelling and the number of people in the trump family and team who will have pleaded guilty or been convicted will be too much for the republican senators to avoid voting for conviction when all of that will be paraded on television hour after hour, day after day. This will be the most watched event of all time. It will be in the public’s face all of the time. They will not be able to avoid it, nor will they want to. It will even weed out some of his base.
Let us keep calm and carry on !