THE END IS IN SIGHT: THE UNRAVELING OF THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE

The path to impeachment, indictment, and who knows what else is getting closer to the end. Robert Mueller and his investigation is picking up steam. Jeff Sessions has had to testify before the Special Council; the President's Director of the FBI has threatened to quit because the President has put undue pressure on him to fire the man who was "acting director" after Comey who is a lifetime public employee. and worst of all for the President, he is going to have to testify before Mueller under oath. For the man who cannot tell the truth {over 2100 documented lies}, this is the ultimate perjury trap and a nightmare for the President's legal team.

There are few things as powerful as being called before the Special Council. It places the individual who is invited in an very precarious situation. You are initially asked to appear voluntarily. If you decline the invitation, you are then subpoenaed. Even the President of the United States is not immune to a Special Council subpoena. Once at the interrogation, every statement you make is under oath and subject to perjury. That testimony has already been either corroborated or denigrated by previous testimony by other witnesses. Any untruth that is stated is subject to a perjury charge. In addition, every statement, every video, every action that has been taken by this President is already in the hands of the Special Council. The President cannot deny facts that are already proven {as he has done in many cases}. He must either remain totally truthful or plead the fifth amendment.

This is the nightmare that faces the attorneys that are trying to protect the President. How do you get a compulsive liar to not lie when he is under severe legal pressure? Can you get the interview to be done in writing? Probably not. Could you get the Special Council to restrict his questioning? Probably not. Could the President plead the fifth amendment? Perhaps, but that would be political suicide. Could the President plead executive privilege to every question? Again perhaps, but the result of that answer would offer up its own set of political pitfalls and possible constitutional crises. Ultimately, there is no good out for the President. There is so much out there that range from the actions that occurred during the campaign and possible discussions and actions with the Russians, to possible pre-election money laundering, to questions about the firing of James Comey, to the pressure to fire McCabe, to the ongoing questions about the Russian government and Trump and his family's ties to that regime, as well as a multitude of other areas that the Mueller investigation may have uncovered. Guilty pleas and indictments against members of the Trump team do not help the situation.

It may turn out that Trump is innocent of criminal liability, though the public reading of the evidence appears to make that outcome less probable. The President manages to dig a deeper and deeper hole every day through his tweeting and his more than occasional rants. No one even questions why the white house has become a haven for the hiring of attorneys. It has become evident that books like "Fire and Fury" are really not necessary to convince people that this is an administration in chaos. People are running for the hills in record numbers for a one year old presidency. No one seems to know where the next shoe will fall and whether they may have some peripheral involvement that they don't even realize. It makes for a pressure filled work environment. Who has been interviewed? What might they have said? Could they have implicated me? The only thing that could reign supreme in a white house like this is chaos.

Rome fell under less pressure than this. And Trump doesn't even have to play his fiddle.