With the rabbit hole of Russian “collusion” largely filled with concrete, what remains now are questions on how President Donald Trump has handled and will handle the investigation itself.

For about two years, the FBI has been looking into alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential campaigns in 2016.

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After Trump won the election, Democrats and some in the media alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian hackers. On Thursday, fired FBI Director James Comey largely put those concerns to rest, testifying that Trump himself was never under investigation.

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Trump’s staff said the president felt vindicated after months of what he has termed a “witch hunt.”

But Democrats deftly switched subjects, instead alleging that Trump interfered with Comey’s investigation. Trump had spoken to Comey numerous times but stopped short of insisting that Comey and the FBI stop investigating Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, who is a focus of a separate investigation.

The new rabbit hole is, thus, that Trump “obstructed justice” by speaking to Comey about Flynn. It’s not much, but it is a charge that Robert Mueller, the Justice Department’s special counsel, will have to explore.

Trump has not been cautious about the new narrative, despite the fact that any special counsel investigation could further ensnare members of his administration or delay his agenda.

“Don’t nourish a harmful story,” said veteran journalist Brit Hume, speaking on Fox News on Monday night, bringing up an old maxim.

There is good reason for that advice. Already, there is evidence that Trump’s repeated fights with Comey, the Democrats, and the media have spooked Republican allies on Capitol Hill. Yet that hasn’t stopped Trump from bashing Comey anew, and weighing in on legal maters, via Twitter, that he really should not address.

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On Friday morning, Trump took a victory lap on Twitter but made the questionable choice to lambast Comey, whom he suggested is a liar.

“Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication…and WOW, Comey is a leaker!” Trump tweeted.

Trump even broached the topic of impeachment on June 9, when he retweeted a video of Geraldo Rivera discussing the issue on “Fox & Friends.” Rivera said James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was so weak, “chances of impeachment” are between 0 and 3 percent.

Rivera is likely right, but why Trump would raise the topic of impeachment — a long shot — is odd. It only keeps the issue alive in the minds of Americans, and it suggests Trump is thinking of the issue.

Then on Friday, in a joint press conference, Trump taunted the media, teasing an announcement on the tapes he suggested might exist of private conversations between Trump and Comey. It was a moment that might be appropriate for a reality TV show, but not the serious business of governing.

Still, Trump supporters said the president is right to be skeptical of a FBI investigation that has already run on two years, and seen a close friend to Comey appointed special counsel.

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“For a long time in the Reagan-Bush era, any special prosecutor was seen as sacrosanct,” Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan official and a top surrogate for Trump on CNN, told LifeZette. “Then along came the Clinton White House. And as Ken Starr went along investigating the Clintons, the Clinton White House and their allies opened their guns on Starr to discredit him — a complete break with precedent in how these prosecutors should be handled.”

Lord said Trump is merely following precedent. He also took note of serious criticism of Mueller from Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity.

“I wonder if this is not the appropriate move now for Trump and allies,” said Lord. “And the obvious way — or one of them — is through tweets. It would probably be better for those outside the White House to do, but the Clinton White House changed the rules, and I would have to believe Trump is aware of this.”

Democrats have not effectively handled any political opening Trump is giving away. Instead, they have made so much of the so-called Russia investigation that it appears they are functioning without an agenda — and they are not being called on it.

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s big agenda item for the day was to mock Trump on Twitter, pretending to have a Cabinet-level meeting with his own staff.

And Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) announced he was advancing a COVFEFE Act of 2017, short for the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act. The bill would make it illegal for Trump to delete tweets from his personal @realDonaldTrump account — referencing Trump’s viral post-midnight May 31 tweet, which he soon after deleted.