Trump's 'Friday night massacre' is just the beginning
The President is making an example of all those who have exposed his misconduct in the past to ensure he can get away with even greater wrongdoing in the future.
"They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing." So the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand supposedly said after the Bourbon kings were restored to power in 1814. That is President Donald Trump to a T.
Twice in the past year he has barely survived scandals that should have doomed his presidency: once after the Mueller report was less scathing than expected or warranted, then again after the Republican-controlled Senate refused to convict him of two articles of impeachment. Each time he should have emulated President Bill Clinton's example by apologising for his conduct, asking forgiveness and trying to bring the country together.
