Trump Won’t Just Violate the Rules Again—He’s Already Doing It
With impeachment a done deal and a Senate trial on the horizon, the president is brazenly engaging in the same behavior that got him here in the first place.
Faced with impeachment, previous presidents have sought to lower tensions. Finding himself in the same situation the past few weeks, Donald Trump has instead opted for confrontation and defiance.
Tomorrow, Trump will be impeached by the House for abusing his power in the pursuit of information in Ukraine damaging to a political rival, in a scheme executed largely by his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. But Trump has not only not apologized or backed down from the behavior that inspired the impeachment; he has instead emphasized it.
Earlier this month, Giuliani once more traveled to Ukraine. And while House Republicans for a time tried to pretend that Giuliani might have been freelancing, without the president’s awareness
