The Trump Watch - Year 4

You and I may not live to see it, but someday historians will give a keen-eyed accounting of what the oddest of all Presidents, Donald Trump, did to our country.

Yesterday will surely appear in the darkest column. It was the day Trump’s chief minion and advocate, the Attorney General William Barr, intervened on his boss’ behalf in the Roger Stone case.

Stone, one of the creepiest of Trump’s creepy circle, was not only accused but had been convicted outright of lying to Congress and of thwarting the investigation into the Russian meddling affair of 2016. He was about to go away for up to nine years.

Then on Tuesday morning Trump tweeted his displeasure with that sentencing recommendation. By dinner time Barr had fixed it. No problem, sir.

Four assistant U.S. attorneys, who had recommended that punishment, promptly resigned from the case. One of them resigned his DOJ job altogether. Of course, the Republican majority in the Congress is still silent in the face of all this. Trump proceeds to one more of his rallies and grins the grin of the Cheshire Cat.

This is serious stuff, and I fear there is much more to come, now that this President is unleashed and unbound. Even the constitutional referees have now left the field in Washington. Anything goes.

Who in authority will speak to any of this now? Anyone?

The door to God knows what stands wide open.

What else is coming?