Does Trump want to be impeached?

It could make sense as a strategy. Is he baiting Democrats to “Make his day?”

Looking at Donald Trump’s behavior since the Mueller Report was released in redacted form can cause some head scratching. You might think he’d change course and be less provocative, at least for a short time. But that’s not the case and sooner or later you need to look at alternative theories of why he has been so inflammatory. Consider this: the Treasury Department, part of the Executive Branch, is stonewalling a routine request for six years of his tax returns. The White House is invoking executive privilege to prevent aids from honoring congressional subpoenas to testify.

Trump’s individual actions may be outrageous to some but none alone is enough to cause congress to consider impeachment. But add the ten instances of behavior from the Mueller Report that some people assert look a lot like obstruction of justice, Trump’s failure to divest from his business and his questionable practices regarding domestic and foreign emoluments clauses violations, and diverting monies from the budget into his wall, and the stack begins to look significant.

Democrats have been downplaying impeachment talk partly out of concern that it could make Trump more popular on the eve of the next election. But Trump may look at the same circumstances and think impeachment is a good…