DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump just got the impeachment battle he says he’s been itching for. Now he’ll need some new lawyers, a new legal strategy and new safeguards around him to survive a fight that could evolve in unpredictable ways. Democrats’ leap into a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday [9-24-19] will trigger a fresh wave of hearings in which Trump’s lawyers can expect to question witnesses and present their own defense. The president’s attorneys also may need to go back to the drawing board if they’re going to defeat lawmakers’ newly emboldened demands — some already sitting before federal judges — seeking critical documents and testimony in a wide range of investigations launched over the past nine months. The bottom line: The very real threat looms that all manner of Trump’s dirty laundry is about to be aired for the American public as Congress tests its constitutional powers…Trump’s challenge is unlike anything he’s faced before in politics since he first launched his long-shot presidential bid in 2015.”
–Darren Samuelsohn, “Trump legal team steps into a battle like none before,” Politico, September 25, 2019 5:02 am