In the shady pools where the most devoted true believers in Trump still swim and survive, the water has begun to evaporate.

Some of the pools where the more "reluctant" Trump supporters once found refuge, have already dried up. In others, the water is shallow, polluted, oxygen-poor, and evaporating.

Strong sunlight does that, slowly. It's the "heat" produced by the slow build up of circumstantial evidence of illegal, unethical, or in the case of the image of the Country and its President, simply distasteful behavior.

For years our suspicions driven by circumstantial evidence and anecdote have been confirmed by increasingly heavy documentary evidence, and in Trump's case, his words.

For the majority of Americans voters who opposed Trump, it's obvious why the political environment in which Trump now lives and moves is, apparently to his great surprise, heating up.

For die-hard Trumpists, however, these realities remain inexplicable . . . Much like rising ocean levels and disappearing polar ice. There's no "evidence" they cry.

They're wrong, of course.

And as the evidence builds up, the confined weight of it produces pressure . . . And heat.

Trumps clumsy and ill-timed firing of James Comey may well prove to have produced critical mass. We have seen and smelled the smoke. Now there's flaming video.

Trump's personal life and ethical flaws were once considered serious and gave many, including many loyal Republican's pause even before he became the nominee of the former Party of Lincoln.

His business dealings, especially in real estate, branding and casino operations, coupled with his adamant refusal to release his tax returns, added to the suspicion.

His documented ties to people and organizations engaged in or suspected of money laundering fueled the fire.

His mean-spirited campaign and the linking of his senior advisors, appointees, White House Staff and even Cabinet members to Russians, Russian oligarchs, Russian intelligence agents and other appointees and pals of Putin produced more heat.

All those factors were exacerbated by botched denials, all exposed by the much feared "mainstream" news media, "leaks" from the conscientious, or by the President's "Tweets."

Three events, in our view, have now raised the heat to critical mass and led to the appointment of Special Counsel:

1. His firing of US Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan after Bharara refused, true to Justice Department protocols, to speak to the President.

2. His firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she warned him, twice, about Ex-National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's unreported personal and financial ties to Russia and Turkey; and

3. His firing of Mike Comey, after the FBI Director refused to swear personal allegiance to Trump or tell him if he, Trump, was personally under investigation by the FBI

Since then, daily and sometimes more often, both circumstantial and documentary evidence that Trump is either unfit, unethical, or illegally abusing his powers as President continue to emerge.

No evidence?

Hardly.

None so blind as those who will not see.