Comey’s testimony will damage Trump but won’t end his presidency, political analyst says..

Erik Jones, professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University, told:

"What we can guess for now is that it will damage the president's public image. It will also likely trigger another Twitter rant from Trump. There will be lots of questions about whether the Russia scandal will blow up into something like an obstruction of justice scandal as a consequence,"

"I think what we'd need to hear is that Comey believed that Trump was actively pushing him to stop the investigation into Russia, which is exactly what Comey doesn't want to say,"

"Impeachment is a political process, it's not a legal process," Jones noted. "All you need is a wave of opinion among particularly congressional Republicans that there's a reason to move against this president. So far we haven't seen that shift in opinion,"

"Throughout history, some presidents have decided that because 'problems' come from Justice, they should try to hold the Department close ... But blurring those boundaries ultimately makes the problems worse by undermining public trust in the institutions and their work."

A Gallup poll showed recently an approval rating of 40 percent for President Trump – the lowest ever given to a newly elected president.

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