Trial Predictions

- Republicans will move for a summary judgment on Impeachment Article 2 (Obstruction of Congress) ... and will succeed

- Trump lawyers will conclude their defense on Monday

- Senate will take only one day for questions

- Only two Republican Senators will vote to call witnesses ... Roberts will not interfere

- Three Democrat Senators will join all Republicans voting to acquit Trump on Article 1 (Abuse of Power)

- Senate impeachment trial will be over by Friday

- Schiff and Schumer will embrace in crocodile tears while Nadler eats a hot dog ...

Trump's Reality

Mika and Joe on MSNBC's Morning Joe proclaim (a fancy word for "yell") it at every opportunity -- Trump is crazy ... or Trump is suffering from early-onset dementia. A group of psychiatrists recently gave their group diagnosis that Trump was cuckoopie. And now Trump himself, in his tweets, is  sometimes showing a distorted reality ... he really didn't say what was on the Billy Bush "grab 'em by the pussy" tape. Or he fired Flynn because he lied to the FBI as well as Pence. (It is very unlikely he knew about the Flynn FBI lie which occurred, if it occurred at all, well after Comey's firing.)

Anyway, yes even I sometimes get twinges of concern over Trump's concept of reality. But these twinges have not yet overtaken my concern about the mania on the Left as they see Obama's crooked house being demolished brick by brick.

I am still willing to view Trump's sometimes quirkiness as a result of his oversized ego ... and it being an asset that keeps true nutjobs like lil' Kim off balance. The stock market is roaring not just because of Trump's recent tax win ... but because they see Obama's crooked house being razed.

Our "demented" president is doing things on the economic, immigration, anti-terrorism, trade, climate, and national defense fronts that are far more rational than our previous "sane" president. And, if you Hillary-ophiles think that your attempts at a slow-motion coup is perfectly rational, then I think you too need some couch time with those puffed-up psychiatrists who have diagnosed Trump as nuts.

Accuse me, if you will, of living in Trump's version of reality. But, when I see our previous understanding  of  what was sanity crumbling with each new sexual harassment revelation ... and many adults, like Mitch McConnell, buying into the Trump way, I am more comfortable with Trump's form of dirangement.

Defense

If Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation ever ends up in the House for President Trump's impeachment and possibly then in the Senate for trial, he faces a number of  problems that seriously undermine such a slow-motion coup effort. The defense attorneys for Trump would likely point out the following gaping holes (and others) in Mueller's evidence and process:

- The appointment of Mueller was the direct result of an illegal leak to the press by James Comey of his notes of conversations with President Trump after he had been fired as FBI Director by Trump ... see: The Hill Article.This vindictive motivation, as well as the fact that Comey and Mueller have a long-standing close relationship, does  cast a cloud over this investigation.

- The prosecutorial team that Mueller has assembled seems to be all partisan Democrats and Democrat contributors. This strongly suggests that this investigation is a political process and not a legal one ... see: CNN Story. Continued illegal leaks to the press from Mueller's  team and its assembled grand juries does nothing but reinforce this notion.

-If General Flynn is to testify at these impeachment events, it would be pointed out that his testimony has already been seriously compromised by his admission that he lied to the FBI and to Vice President Pence ... see: CBS Story.

- The lead FBI agent on the Mueller team has exhibited extreme prejudice against Trump and been dismissed ... see: Breitbart News Story and Powerline Blog Post.

- If, as it has been rumored, the Russian dossier was used as an excuse for FISA approval to surveil the Trump campaign team ... and this Russian dossier is proven fraudulent ... then much of the evidence so collected should be deemed tainted and inadmissible ... see: Real clear politics Story.

All this and more suggests to me that Mueller may be a dead man walking ... and that the Democrats' slow-motion coup may soon come to a dead stop ...

Acolytes

Today President Obama is nominating three acolytes to fill three vitally important posts in his administration … John Kerry to State, Chuck Hagel to Defense, and John Brennan to head the CIA.  They are soon to replace, in this order, three much more independently-minded people … Hillary Clinton (in questionable health),  a burned-out Leon Panetta, and former General David Petraeus (who fell on his sword … possibly an unfortunate analogy) … see: Earthlink News. 

Two of these nominees are long-time legislators (Hagel and Kerry) and such people usually don't translate well to administrative posts (I’ll comment more on this at some later date), but, to me, this CIA nomination is even more unfortunate in that Brennan has always appeared to me to put politics and his career ahead of his patriotic duties.  I first noted this in January, two years ago, when he botched the crotch bomber incident … see Head(s) Should Roll

Since then, Brennan, who is currently Obama’s assistant for counter-terrorism and homeland security, has appeared to be involved in numerous unsavory security leaks (such as those surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden) and national security screw-ups (e,gs,, the Benghazi fiasco/cover-up and the loss of a high-tech drone to Iran … see: Cyber Warfare).  Yes, but one could also argue he has also been in the forefront of the use of drones to take out much of al Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere… but he has also approved the selling of drones to Pakistan (see: Are We F...ing Crazy?) and giving F-16 fighter jets to Egypt … both silly bone-headed moves.

Putting Brennan in to head up the CIA makes me very uneasy in that he seems more politically active and willing to massage Obama's ego than is advisable in this post.  He (like Obama's two other neophyte acolytes) really does not seem to be up to the job.

Afterward: See also: Breitbart Story and His Remarks about Jihad and The Left Dislikes Him Too