Are the dominos starting to fall?

Much of the political Left and the mainstream media have been unrelenting over the past year in their quest to get Donald Trump removed from office. Despite their best efforts however, Trump is still safely the President of the United States. I don’t see Trump getting impeached anytime in the foreseeable future, but there have been a few smaller developments that maybe indicate that we’re seeing the first dominos starting to fall. Maybe.

Four of Trump’s former associates have now gone down. Two of them—former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former campaign aide Rick Gates—have been indicted. The other two—former national security advisor Michael Flynn and former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos—have plead guilty to lying to the FBI about their communications with Russian officials. All of them had their ties to Trump severed prior to their indictments or plea bargains, so we can’t say any current member of the Trump Administration has been taken down, but perhaps whatever information they give to Robert Mueller’s investigation will lead to some significant charges in the future. Or maybe it won’t. It’s still too early to say. Special investigations like the one we have going on now take a long time to produce anything big, and it could be years before the investigation wraps up. There’s also a very real possibility that the investigation will take down members of Trump’s administration, but not Trump himself. To my knowledge there’s currently no evidence that Trump has done anything worthy of impeachment. Maybe that will change tomorrow or next month with a bombshell announcement that changes everything, but I wouldn’t count on it. In the meantime, those screaming for Trump to be removed from office better learn to be patient and not get their hopes up too much.