What we’ve really discovered in the past 48 hours is that, despite the constant refrain for much of the past three years, Trump never wanted to be impeached and doing so was not “playing into his hands.” What he wanted was to be “acquitted,” particularly for the Russia investigation, because then he could run in 2020 on the lie that he was the “victim” of a partisan conspiracy that had failed to remove him in a “coup.” And it’s driving him nuts that the woman he once believed would never impeach him is now standing in the way of that “acquittal.”

I don’t imagine that life is very good for Sen. Yertle right now, with Donny screaming in one ear and his wife screaming in the other about scrutiny finally falling upon her obvious influence peddling.