The Very Stable Genius's insistence on his own alternate reality causes his entire impeachment defense team to bail

 Every last attorney that had been enlisted to be on his side has bolted:

Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, who were expected to be two of the lead attorneys, are no longer on the team. A source familiar with the changes said it was a mutual decision for both to leave the legal team. As the lead attorney, Bowers assembled the team.

Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney who was recently added to the team, has also left, according to another source familiar with the changes. Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris, from South Carolina, are no longer involved with the case, either.

No other attorneys have announced they are working on Trump's impeachment defense.

A person familiar with the departures told CNN that Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was mass election fraud and that the election was stolen from him rather than focus on the legality of convicting a president after he's left office. Trump was not receptive to the discussions about how they should proceed in that regard.

Think about this. As recently as earlier this month, Donald Trump held the highest office in the nation, the most powerful position in the world. He had exclusive access to the nuclear codes. And we now know he is capable of being so consumed with a delusion that he'll put himself in an eleventh-hour bind like this to stand by it.

Remaining cult followers, is this having any effect on your view of this man and what he's been about? Well, in the case of some of you, it isn't, because you buy into his alternate reality, too.

But if he's so wacked out that he'd cut his nose off to spite his face like this, what might he have cast adrift in terms of the national interest just because it might have meant foregoing a bit of self-glorification?