Trump's foul mood leads him deeper into darkness

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President Donald Trump is hardly acting like a very stable genius.

Instead, his unleashed fury, fact-bending rants and persecution complex are conjuring an image of someone seeing his presidency slipping through his hands. While current political conditions seem unlikely to lead to his ouster from office, Trump appears increasingly powerless to save himself from the historical scar of impeachment.
He has crushed just about every norm since descending his golden escalator to launch his 2016 presidential campaign. Now he's reinventing how presidents deal with an existential scandal. And it seems to be leading him deeper into the darkness.
    After a day of poor media reviews for his unrestrained tirades on Wednesday, Trump became even angrier on Thursday -- calling on Communist China to open an investigation into Joe Biden -- a potential 2020 general election opponent, "China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine," Trump said at the White House.
    In effect, the President was publicly calling on a US adversary to investigate a prominent American citizen who is a political opponent -- the same request he made in private to Ukraine's President -- that prompted House Democrats to launch an impeachment investigation.There is no evidence that Joe Biden received money from China. But a company that retained his son Hunter on its board, received a large investment of Chinese capital shortly after he visited the country with his father, though a lawyer for Hunter Biden has pushed back on Trump's characterization calling it "a gross misrepresentation." The Biden campaign has said the President's behavior was an abuse of power motivated by panic that the former vice president would "beat him like a drum" in 2020.
    Part of Trump's frustration may stem from the unusual nature of his current plight. Since taking office, Trump has kept Washington hopping, with his adversaries never knowing what wild gyration will rock the capital next. But in the week since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally initiated impeachment hearings, the President has seemed out of sorts. It is the Democrats who are doing all the running, and Trump can't catch up.
    "We are not fooling around," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff warned on Monday, in a grave news conference with Pelosi that contrasted with Trump's fireworks and turned on complex constitutional justifications for the Democrats' decision to seek the President's impeachment.
    The painful truth for Trump is that the machinery of impeachment is grinding on, and there is not much he can do about it.
    Convention suggests that Trump should ignore the storm and get on, like Bill Clinton did when impeachment threatened, to do the work of the American people. A President on thin ice ought to avoid any public behavior that deepens his jeopardy.
    That's not Trump's way.

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