CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No one enjoys getting impeached, and if it happens to him, Donald J. Trump will be no exception. On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine any potential target of impeachment in Anglo-American history relishing the fight more than Trump. He’d rather be done with the Mueller investigation in all its permutations, but there’s no one better suited to being at the center of a harshly partisan, deeply personal political and legal donnybrook that will ultimately be just for show. Trump famously told his top aides at the beginning of his administration that he wanted them to view each day as a TV episode. Impeachment would be a helluva season, matching a momentous process of American government with low political melodrama. This may feel like a devolution from the buttoned-up Mueller probe, but the House actually should have been the locus of the Trump investigation in the first place. Because Justice Department policy says a president can’t be indicted, the Mueller report was never going to reach a legal conclusion about alleged obstruction. The question was whether the president’s conduct constituted an abuse of power that Congress would deem impeachable; in other words, it was a political question.”
–Rich Lowry, “Impeachment? This Is the Fight Trump Wants,” Politico, April 24, 2019