We now know from recent articles (and Michael Cohen) that Trump tells lenders one thing while saying the opposite to tax authorities.

Pro Publication has some of Trump’s tax and lending documents that show exactly this.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-trump-tower-tax-records-reveal-new-inconsistencies

If god was interested in US politics, there wouldn’t be a Pres. Trump.

If there is a God, yes.

There are certainly some serious credibility issues around! What is perhaps truly frightening is that, as a result of such a lack of credibility, the Rule of Law – and therefore democracy – is under serious threat.

and how has what the House has done going to stop Trump? do you seriously think he is going to be removed from office based on what the House has gotten from its inquiry?

It’s not so much a secret as that the people with their hands on the levers of power in this country (looking at you, McTurtle), know and don’t care. He’s giving them what they want, and they’re not just looking the other way–they’re defending him, no matter how ridiculous they sound.

Perhaps the court system can force Trump to comply with the law, but did you notice how long it took for the courts to rule and enforce those rulings? We don’t have so many years to wait while cases–and appeals, and more appeals–make their way through the system. Trump is a danger to the country, and the rest of the world NOW, and Congress needed to be seen to do its Constitutional duty, or Trump would, in effect, be getting away with the things for which he is being impeached. Maybe he could be indicted after he left office, but that’s not good enough.

I just wish the impeachment could be slow-rolled for long enough to let Trump’s various misdeeds burrow their way into the consciousness of the majority of the public, who don’t follow politics as obsessively as some of us do. As it is, it will be over and done with–with the Senate Republicans refusing to remove him from office, despite a mountain of evidence that he deserves to be–and Trump will have months to lie about his ‘exoneration’. That’s likely to work against Democrats, and we can’t afford another four years of Donald Trump’s destruction of our government and deference to Vladimir Putin (no matter how much money Trump owes him).

that’s the problem though, he (and others like him) will keep doing it as long as he can keep getting away with it.