Impeached for a second time, the president has few allies remaining.
HE LOST HIS FAVORITE means of communication, he lost the support of 10 House Republicans, he lost several formerly loyal soldiers to resignation, even Sen. Mitch McConnell reportedly said he’d committed an impeachable offense.
But that’s not the end of it. The walls have continued to close around President Donald Trump in his final days in office. On Wednesday, he was impeached for a second time. But there was an unsettling quiet on the president’s favorite medium, Twitter. As the impeachment debate continued on the Hill and nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers voted in favor, Trump couldn’t complain to his followers – he was banned from the social media site only days before. Instead, he released a tweet-length statement as a press release (it didn’t generate much buzz).
The typically boisterous, provocative president is quiet (at least to the outside world – reports suggest he is anything but quiet inside the White House) as his tenure tailspins to a close. And he’s getting lonelier by the day as people and businesses reject him. Continue reading.