Yes. As it's been stated though, the true purpose for this impeachment is to insure 45 can't return to political life. As it stands now, he can be arrested & put in jail for multiple life terms, and still run.
Trump will likely be in prison or have died of old age by 2024. He’s hardly a picture of good health. Plus the republicans are rapidly losing corporate support.
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I give a >50% chance he's not going to be in a good enough shape to run even if everything else would be permissive.
Agree, but truth be told the whole thing had been blatant as fuck and the reasoning that rioters had premeditation ruling out incitement are in close competition with a latrine in terms of being full of shit.
I wouldn’t be so confident. You know what P. T. Barnum said about the public...
I think the rich donors are more threatened by the end of democracy than workers having stronger rights.
The public will pay attention at the beginning and the end. And the beginning already looks like a dramatic improvement and at the end it’s difficult to believe that life will be worse given the pandemic will be over.
The law doesn’t matter. The facts don’t matter. They will protect Trump no matter what. At this point, the goal of this becomes convincing the public so that after the weak-kneed GOP senators acquit him, they suffer at the ballot box.
Chuck Todd on NBC suggested that even if the House managers don't win the trial among their Senate colleagues, they may very well win in the court of public opinion.
Though after seeing Congress fleeing for their lives and Capitol officers being beaten and stopped by a crazed mob, if the Senate doesn't convict it will be an obscenity.
