So far, there hasn't been much about Trump repeatedly asking Comey to issue a public statement confirming that he wasn't personally under investigation. Comey seemed as confused as the rest of us. closed the Clinton e-mail investigation but left open the Trump-Russia investigation. He did say, "She was already involved in this whole situation with fake news." He also said that he thought there had been a "double standard" in the way the F.B.I. Was he suggesting that there might have been some collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Russians? Hard to know. Senator John McCain's questioning was rambling, confusing, and embarrassing. But what to watch for is this: Are any Republicans so troubled by the President’s credibility that they will hedge their bets and join Democrats in supporting the continued investigation of Trump and his aides?
Republicans control Congress, and I’m skeptical that Comey’s testimony, as thorough and troubling as it was, will change the minds of many Republicans whose instinct is to defend Trump from the worst accusations hurled at him by Democrats. That leaves this case in the realm of politics, with impeachment as the only remedy. Most legal scholars believe that you can’t indict a sitting President. The President is never going to be criminally charged, of course. Comey made as strong a case as he could that Trump’s actions amounted to obstruction of justice, without actually using the words. Now, like Flynn, he is really in the soup.Ī final thought as the public portion of the hearing wraps up. But, rather than sitting it out and protesting his innocence, he let hubris get to him. Obviously, that was an irritation and a potential danger, but one from which he was still partly removed. Until he leaned on Comey and then fired him, he was facing a counter-espionage investigation in which he himself wasn't a formal target. If the Russia investigation does end up destroying the Trump Presidency, Trump will have brought much of it upon himself. The other thing I took away from the hearing was what a Shakespearean turn this story has taken.
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