This is why we keep seeing these outbursts: A man who built a life and a career flouting the rules is being forced to play by them and may even be punished under them. There is no way to stop the process that is already in progress.

The special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his team show up every day working on their investigation and building their cases. We have no idea what they know, but it is clear their search weighs heavily on Trump.

This investigation is driving Trump to distraction. No matter how much his attorney tries to assure him that the investigation will end soon and well for him — and no matter how much Trump may believe that — Mueller is in no rush and is no rube.

Trump is trapped. He and his minions can lie to the public, but they can’t lie to Mueller. Whatever truth there is to find, Mueller will find it. And from what we already know, there seems to have been quite a bit of funny business within the Trump campaign.

Even the disheveled, self-important, would-be impresario Steve Bannon won’t deny the stench that emanated from Trump Tower during the campaign. According to The Guardian, in Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Bannon described the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”

Bannon also reportedly told the author, “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”