Donald Trump’s reaction to the news that he is being investigated for possible obstruction of justice was to send out a twitter message claiming that, “You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history — led by some very bad and conflicted people!”

Bad and conflicted people? Trump is being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a man who served honorably as Director of the FBI under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is an extremely capable, independent and ethical public servant. 

Among Trump’s many problems is his fragile ego, his propensity to shoot from the hip and his inability to keep his mouth shut (or Twitter off). He created this situation by speaking and tweeting evidence of his wish to obstruct the FBI investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and the Russians.

It appears that Trump is trying to create a false “justification” for ordering Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller as independent counsel. Perhaps he thinks he would then be able to order Rosenstein to appoint someone who is “loyal” to his highness.

Trump is a very immature and unstable person who has the power to seriously undermine our democracy.

So far, Congressional Republicans are allowing him to act more and more like a spoiled child who cannot tolerate any restrictions on his behavior. When will they finally wake up to the fact that he is behaving like an autocratic dictator, not the president of a democracy?

Virginia Washburn

Grand Beach