So it has ended in impeachment.
Again.
To be sure, it hasn't ended.
I suspect the votes may not be there yet in the Senate to convict, but what the House prosecutors will bring out will make it damned difficult to shrug this time.
There will be lots of sharp spears in the backs of the Dems this time, too.
The GOP will try to falsely claim it is an illegal trial, ignoring the fact that he was actually impeached while president. The trial is the trial though.
If they even participate in the trial at all, it will nullify instantly any argument that the trial is illegitimate. If that were the keystone argument, they'd refuse to try the case and force it into the Supreme Court, the challenge to its Constitutionality, that is.
But, there's not enough drama or air time in that. They'll defend the president, but will be slammed by the playing of "we LOVE you" juxtaposed with videos of policemen being beaten with American (not Confederate) flags, and the death count. It won't play well.
They'll hear from lawyers or depositions from the arrested that they were doing what their president called them up to do.
They'll play the call to Georgia asking for the votes.
They'll take depositions at the Attorney General's office of the coup attempted there. The enablers won't be able to cough enough to cover up that.
I have no idea if enough will capitulate in the Senate so as to allow the conviction but if they do, there will most likely be at least censures for Josh Hawley, Mo Brooks (in the House) and others.
After that rally, they can't continue to plead innocent.
Let's hope McConnell and the other three aren't left out to dry.
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