IF HE STEALS THE ELECTION, HE'LL SERIOUSLY TRY TO ARREST OBAMA, AND OTHER ENEMIES

I'm watching the polls and it's clearly all but impossible now for President Trump to win reelection fairly -- which doesn't mean he won't find a way to steal the presidency. If he does manage to win somehow, he really will follow through on what should not be mistaken for a steroid-induced fever dream:

Donald Trump mounted an overnight Twitter blitz demanding to jail his political enemies and call out allies he says are failing to arrest his rivals swiftly enough.

Trump twice amplified supporters’ criticisms of Attorney General William Barr, including one featuring a meme calling on him to “arrest somebody!” He wondered aloud why his rivals, like President Barack Obama, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton hadn’t been imprisoned for launching a “coup” against his administration.

“Where are all of the arrests?” Trump said, after several dozen tweets on the subject over the past 24 hours. “Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? Long term sentences would have started two years ago. Shameful!”

By early afternoon, Trump was letting loose his frustrations in an all-caps missive that seemed aimed at nobody in particular.

“DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY)!!! BIDEN, OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY LED THIS TREASONOUS PLOT!!! BIDEN SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO RUN - GOT CAUGHT!!!” Trump tweeted.

We're reassured that even the attorney general has his limits:

In past interviews, Barr has signaled that he has no intention of prosecuting senior Obama administration officials, though he has cast doubt on the motives behind the Russia probe and launched an investigation into its origins.

But if Trump manages to hold on to the presidency and Barr continues insisting on this scruple, Trump will fire him and seek to replace him with a hatchetman who will arrest his enemies. And if he can't get one past the Senate, he'll try to find a way to maneuver an "acting" AG into the position who'll do his bidding.

If he can't pull that off, he'll fire Barr anyway, for not doing everything Roy Cohn would have done for him (even though a Trump election victory can't happen without a lot of Barr skulduggery -- then again, when have we known Trump to express gratitude?). Maybe Trump can't get an attorney general in place who'll get this done, but he'll certainly make it a consuming goal of his second term -- you don't think he wants to win again because he has a legislative agenda, do you? It'll be all about vengeance -- plus trying to win a Nobel Peace Prize and get his face on Mount Rushmore. Those will be his only three goals in a second term.