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Wed Oct 2, 2019, 12:49 PM Oct 2019

Impeachment is making Trump crazy (LAT)

By JON HEALEY
DEPUTY EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR
SEP. 30, 2019 10:41 AM

An avowed counterpuncher, President Trump is not known for cool grace under pressure. He took to Twitter over the weekend to unleash a frenzied series of screeds attacking the impeachment process, saying not only that it’s unwarranted, but that it’s illegitimate.

He’s entitled to defend himself, of course. But the language was so extreme and irresponsible at times, it was unnerving. This is clearly a time not to take Trump either literally or seriously.

Two particular targets were an as-yet-unnamed whistleblower, whose complaint about Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened this latest neighborhood in Crazytown, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), who is leading one part of the probe into the whistleblower’s allegations ...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-30/trump-impeachment-schiff-treason-civil-war

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