Trump Freak Show Demands Impeachment

It's bad enough that a guy with the demonstrable moral compass of a common garden slug somehow swindled his way into the White House, promising deliverance, but delivering chaos.

In the wake of the White House's Russia-centered scandals in just this past week, it's more than fair to ask: Is there anyone less qualified or less deserving to be President of the United States than Donald J. Trump?

And it's fair enough to answer: No.

Trump's inane intelligence security breach to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office a week ago and his abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey, the day before, cry ineptititude, obstruction of justice and possibly high treason.

Nevertheless, nearly four months into this Twilight Zonish presidency, the right's queer commitment to normalize Trump's hideously abnormal presidency, persists.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday brushed off Trump's sharing highly classified secrets with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, as just more White House "drama," distracting from more pressing Capitol Hill business, like cutting taxes for the rich.

As it stands, the featured freak has escaped from the red and yellow circus tent, highjacked the sideshow barker's box, and is peddling discount tickets just to gawk at an empty tent.

And the suckers are still lining up.

That fact alone is as scary as all of this narcissistic, dictatorial President's erratic, inciting and vindictive tweets and disruptive, divisive actions put together.

After 100 plus days of: corporatist-beholden policy, autocratic attacks on the Press, repetitive blatant lies, persistant childish tweets, unfettered profiteering off the presidency, reckless provocation of world leaders and the firing of key federal investigators probing Trump's Russian ties, Republicans and rabid Reality TV fans can't see it.

They can't see the 15,000 pound, wise-cracking, dancing, pink, polka-dotted elephant in the room.

Both McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan's predictable downplaying of Comey's firing and secrets shared with Russia, United States' advisary in the Syria conflict, only further call into question their loyalty to country over party.

So far, the congressional leaders have dismissed urgent calls from congressional Democrats for a special prosecutor and an independent bi-partisan commission to investigate Trump's Russia connections -- a move Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) insists on before congress considers a new FBI director.

Yet, if there ever was a clear cut case of obstructing justice anywhere in the universe, it seems Trump's firing of Comey qualifies.

Not only did Trump can Comey just as the head FBI investigator was amping up his probe into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia's 2016 presidential election meddling, but the President offered conflicting reasons for Comey's ouster -- his latest of which directly implies he was trying to cover up his own treasonous Russian connections.

 "... I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story,' Trump told NBC News on Thursday, oddly referring to himself in the third person, 'it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.'"

Whether the President is truly clueless that he doesn't get to decide his own criminal innocence or guilt on such weighty matters as obstruction and high treason, or he is attempting to cover up his complicity with Russia -- or both -- he's plainly exhibited grounds for impeachment.

Period.