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Robin Abcarian: Is the Trump impeachment snowball finally becoming an avalanche?

Some months after Donald Trump took the oath of office, when many of us were still rubbing our eyes in disbelief, a handful of people who knew Trump well began predicting that he would implode under the pressure of the presidency, that he wouldn't last out his first term.

Perhaps the most vocal and confident was Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote Trump's bestseller "The Art of the Deal." Schwartz seemed to understand Trump's psychology better than anyone.

As far back as two years ago in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Schwartz warned: "The snowball is beginning to gather momentum as it comes down the mountain. It reminds me a lot of Watergate and

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