(CNN) The impeachment of Donald Trump is now an inevitability thanks, not to Congress, but to his own character and personality which drove him to seek foreign help in the 2020 election. When the House declares him worthy of removal from office, however, the very flaws that got Trump to this point -- the absence of humility, lack of integrity and his self-absorption -- will keep him on a destructive path.

The President will not be chastened by the awful stain applied to his name. He will, instead, spin up the cruelty and chaos, deepen the division between Americans and stoke fear in all.

Michael D'Antonio

Extreme defiance is the hallmark Trumpian method. Whatever others find appalling in his behavior he defends and then does some more.

This tendency explains why, after he got in trouble for begging Russia to intervene in the 2016 election, which he says was in "jest," he allegedly did it again in anticipation of 2020. This time he pressured Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations into his Democratic rival Joe Biden and the debunked conspiracy theory holding that Ukraine and not Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

When caught in the act, Trump didn't back away but rather said that Ukraine and China should both investigate the Bidens. In this way, he's like a child caught breaking a window with a rock who immediately breaks another to show that he's supposed to be shattering all that glass. You can't reason with the boy who has knowingly committed an offense when he does it again, right in front of you, and says it is the right thing to do.