Trump Trouble?

Don't look now, but Donald Trump could be in serious trouble.

The Mueller report, which may or may not get out soon, apparently has more damning information and conclusions that Attorney General William Barr has let on about.  Trump is still saying that he has nothing to hide, and he's so confident in his non-exoneration in the Mueller report that he says he wouldn't mind if its contents were in fact released to the public.  He is safe  - so he assumes - in the knowledge that Barr will find a way to release just enough of the Mueller report to appear transparent but not enough to get him in more hot water.

On the other hand, Trump has made it clear that his tax returns are off limits, and he refuses to release them.  The Democrats are trying to subpoena them as part of an overall investigation of his business dealings, though they are not necessarily expecting to find anything that would lead to impeachment.  And yet Trump is curiously - unless you think he does have something to hide - resisting calls for a look at his tax returns.  (So is Bernie Sanders, but that's another post.)  He's hoping to divert attention from them by threatening to close the Mexican border . . . and firing Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security Secretary due to her refusal to go back to a migrant-family separation policy.  To illustrate just how clueless Trump is about domestic security, he will, with the appointment of Kevin McAleenan to succeed Nielsen in an acting capacity, have had three Homeland Security Secretaries - more Homeland Security Secretaries in one term than either Bush the Younger or Obama had in two terms.      

Trump is so unpopular that he could lose the 2020 presidential election running unopposed.  Fortunately for him, the Democrats have to nominate an opponent.  I've already commented on nine declared candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, expressing a preference for none of them, and there may be twice as many declared candidates left for me to comment on before I'm through.  Ugh.  And even after I've vetted Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Pete Buttgieg, Tim Ryan, Wayne Massam (who?) and a dozen-odd more candidates I don't know from Adam or Eve, Unn D. Sided will still remain my preference.