Week 160 - Laughingstock of the World

This week, Trump traveled to London for the NATO  summit as impeachment hearings got underway in the House Judiciary  Committee, and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee issued a  scathing 300-page report. While Trump sought to display strength abroad,  and used the summit as an excuse not to participate in impeachment  hearings, a video at a Buckingham Palace reception surfaced Tuesday  night showing world leaders openly mocking and laughing at him. He  abruptly left early Wednesday, seething and returning in disgrace as the  constitutional scholars testified in House impeachment hearings.  Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman said, “the reason the  Constitution provided for impeachment was to anticipate a situation like  the one that is before you today.”

On Thursday, shortly after Trump tweeted “if you  are going to impeach me, do it now, fast,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  announced in somber tones and invoking the Founders and Constitution,  that the House would begin drafting articles of impeachment. Meanwhile,  Rudy Giuliani traveled back to Budapest and Kyiv, seeking dirt on the  Bidens, meeting with Ukrainian officials, including one with ties to  Russia.

This week Trump continued his feud with the  so-called deep state, now growing to include the military — while his  remaining conspiracy theories were set to be debunked in a report by the  Justice Department Inspector General, in consultation with Attorney  General William Barr’s handpicked prosecutor, John Durham.