Time to investigate the investigators?

Democrats in the US have been calling for impeachment of President Donald Trump from before he took office. With 21 Democratic candidates lined up to take on Trump in next year's presidential election, there are strident calls to impeach him. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are the front runners at the moment, but the race has just begun. The US economy grew 3.2% in the first quarter of 2019, and the economy added 263,000 jobs in April, with unemployment falling to 3.6%, the lowest level in 49 years. With the economy firing on all cylinders Democratic hopefuls calculate that if they can keep Trump busy fighting impeachment proceedings in Congress he would be too distracted to campaign effectively and public attention could be diverted from the good news about the economy. The economy may not have such a strong influence on the outcome of presidential elections, wrote M Moffatt, but it cannot hurt. The Democrats were relying on Robert Muller to provide evidence of collusion between Trump campaign and the Russian government, but Muller found no such evidence. Muller was non-committal on whether Trump tried to obstruct his investigation. Attorney General Bill Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his release of a redacted version of the Muller report but refused to appear before a similar committee in the House. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler has threatened to hold Barr in contempt if he does not hand over an unredacted Muller report. Democrats are furious because Barr said "he'd already assigned people at the Justice Department to assist his investigation of the origins of Trump-Russia probe" and "justifications for secret surveillance warrants against Trump team members", wrote K Strassel. "He also said he'd focus on the infamous 'dossier' concocted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and former British spy Christopher Steele, on which the FBI relied so heavily in its probe." Democrats must be terrified of opening this can of worms. Meanwhile, officials in Ukraine, whose government is fighting Russian speaking citizens in the east of the country, tried to help Hillary Clinton campaign by releasing information on Paul Manafort's business activities. Trump is threatening to declassify documents used to obtain surveillance warrants on his campaign. No wonder Obama took Trump's election victory as a personal insult. A friend of former Director of the FBI James Comey leaked secret information from memos written by him. Comey is a thoroughly unreliable character whose interference cost Hillary Clinton the election and who kept notes on Trump. If the 2016 election was interesting next year's one is going to be absolutely fascinating. Better than an action movie.