Donald's Administration is Invisible

Think about it. This week was supposed to be a big "infrastructure" week. All that anyone remembers about his "infrastructure" week is that Donald held a lavish press conference and signing ceremony for a letter he sent to Congress. Contrary to their plans, the administration just melted into the background.

It was James Comey's notes and testimony to Congress that has dominated the entire week and for good reason.

18 USC § 1512  

(c) Whoever corruptly—

(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or

(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

 Those tapes, if they exist, altered or otherwise destroyed, would be a violation of the first section of subsection (c). Otherwise, Donald will be forced to hand them over or admit that they never existed.

By threatening Comey with tapes, Donald may have already violated the second section of subsection (c).

By asking Comey to let the investigation go, and then by asking others to intervene on his behalf with Comey to get him to drop the investigation on Flynn, Donald would have violated the second section of subsection (c).

It's not difficult to see that there are multiple charges that can be applied to Donald's actions. Can they get him on more? This is an undisciplined guy we're talking about; the longer this carries on, the more opportunities there will be for Donald to screw up royally.

But in the meantime, the problem is that Donald has no serious bills up for votes. The earliest a Senate ACA repeal bill will come up for a vote is July, if at all. No one knows when a tax bill will come up for a vote in the House. They don't have a single infrastructure bill. Sometime before the end of summer, we may hit the debt ceiling, and then there's the end of the fiscal year.

Without real stuff to talk about, of course, the media's going to focus on Russia and Donald's ties to those with problems stemming from Russia.