Seventeen is a staggering and unprecedented number of investigations for a sitting President. From the article: "as 2018 winds down, Donald Trump faces a legal assault unlike anything previously seen by any President."
The chance that he can escape all seventeen investigations has to be pretty slim. All this is surely getting to Trump. If you've seen any recent pictures of Trump, you've probably noticed he looks like hell. His Twitter feed reads like the ravings of an institutionalized inmate.
And, of course, seventeen doesn't include Congressional investigations that will begin next year nor any of the many private lawsuits where Trump is being sued.
All of the above aside, I imagine the number of investigations will expand beyond seventeen in the future as more scandals are uncovered, particularly when the House of Representatives committees will begin investigating Trump, his business, and his associates.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump tried to claim that Hillary Clinton would be mired in scandal and investigations thus not able to function effectively as President. Given that standard he set, and given he's mired in scandals and a record number of investigations, shouldn't he step down, because he admittedly can't function as President?
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