Trump 'going crazy' over impeachment legacy

[SummerMadness]

Trump 'going crazy' over impeachment legacy

Real estate mogul, billionaire, reality show host, late-night show punch line, populist rabble rouser, norm-busting leader — impeached president.

Beyond the immediate ramifications of the all-but-certain outcome of this week's vote, impeachment will always be attached to President Donald Trump. Years from now, it will be one of the first things students are taught about the 45th president.

It's a reality that has tormented past presidents who faced the prospect of impeachment. In the days before his resignation, President Richard Nixon confessed to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger his fears that Watergate would define his legacy. President Bill Clinton fretted behind closed doors about how history books would paint him, even as he projected a dismissive attitude in public.

"For Trump, now impeachment will appear in the opening paragraph of his life," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.

You wouldn't go crazy if you weren't a corrupt president. But you shall forever be known as President Asterisk, and that will never change.

 

[Paulos23]

It is worked for him in the past. But there are grownups in Congress now that are not impressed with his temper tantrum.

 

[Fantine]

By the time the historians are done with him, the asterisk will just be a little footnote in a long list of treachery. He has behaved so badly that I think it's too late for him to redeem himself.

And of course, there are all those investigations that are pending against him in state courts. New York is going after him as "Individual 1" and they do have his state tax returns for years and years back (with federal schedules). They could probably lock him up for quite awhile, and he couldn't get pardoned by a president.

So maybe he will become a cell mate with Bernie Madoff.

700 living historians have just recommended impeachment. He thinks he will have a positive legacy?

He will be head to head with history's greatest scoundrels.

 

[dzheremi]

How can you tell that Trump is going crazy when he reacts with a similar vitriol to many things? He's always on ten, and seems to lack impulse control, or an editor (which his recent letter could've really used). If there were a children's story about him, it'd be The President Who Cried (About) Everything.