Trump Was Impeached Twice Within the Span It Takes a Giraffe to Gestate a Calf President Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images By Reading List “Trump has instructed aides not to pay [Rudy] Giuliani’s legal fees,” The Washington Postreported this morning. Talk about returning to form; a lifetime of screwing contractors interrupted by five garbage years in politics is getting back to the business of screwing contractors. If anyone needed a vivid indicator that “President Donald Trump” will shortly be past tense, that sentence is like a billboard visible from the moon. Yes, Virginia: This, too, shall pass.