Analysis: Trump's Senate trial matters regardless of outcome
WASHINGTON (AP) This matters.
The outcome may seem preordained in the unprecedented second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Democrats prosecuting the former president for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will struggle to persuade at least 17 Republicans to convict Trump and bar him from office. Forty-five of the 50 Republican senators backed a bid last month to dismiss the trial, essentially telegraphing how the final vote will play out.
But the trial set to begin Tuesday is ultimately a test of whether a president, holding an office that many of the nations founders feared could become too powerful in the wrong hands, is above the law. Senators will be forced to sit still, listen to evidence and wrestle with elemental questions about American democracy. There will be visual, visceral evidence, and the American people will also be sitting in their own form of judgment as they watch.
The verdict and the process itself will be scrutinized for generations.
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hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)I've been saying that the dumpsters reign will launch a million PhD theses. This impeachment trial is critical to the historical record.
ariadne0614
(1,692 posts)livetohike
(22,084 posts)He may be able to start a third party, but he could never run for office. Since hes a narcissist, hed give up the third party idea. I dont see him being able to support anyone that isnt him.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Americans will judge the GQP harshly for their complicity. They will live to regret their crimes.