Today, President Donald Trump stated that he couldn’t work “under these circumstances” when Democrats met with him to discuss an infrastructure package.

Trump refused to even sit down when he walked into the scheduled Cabinet Room meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, instead delivering them an ultimatim: they could choose legislation or investigation, but not both.

Of course, this wouldn’t be happening if he had not been so evasive and had tried to keep the Department of Justice investigators and other personnel from doing their jobs. Also, this might not have happened had not trump and members of his family outright lied to the American public about having conversations with Russian representatives.

See, Mr. Trump, the thing is that when you constantly lie and act like there’s some major stuff to hide, then you basically are begging to be investigated. That’s how that works.

Also, the concept that the President cannot be investigated or held accountable by the legislative branch is a theory he and his proponents have promoted which is inconsistent with American history and with the Constitution.

The main strategy in avoiding getting investigated — or, getting indicted for crimes as a number of people in Trump’s presidential campaign did. The FBI indicted, convicted or obtained guilty pleas from 34 people and 3 companies, including some of President Trump’s top advisors, in addition to Russian spies and hackers that have ties to the Kremlin.

So, Mr. Trump, where there’s smoke there’s often fire: if you don’t want to be investigated, don’t hire on so many criminal schmucks and idiots. (We should really just refer to them as “traitors”.)

Drain the swamp, indeed, Mr. Swampy.