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Of All the Hills to Die On, the GOP Picked Donald Trump.
It’s surreal that it’s come to this.
Earlier this week, the Senate began hearing arguments concerning Donald Trump’s second impeachment and the charge of incitement of an insurrection that he faces after the riots on January 6th. In the incredibly unlikely event that the former President is convicted, he would be barred from ever running for federal office again. Perhaps that’s why the thought of conviction has reportedly been so appealing to powerful Republican lawmakers like Mitch McConnell, who have not exactly made it a secret that they would like to see him ousted from the GOP once and for all.
And yet here we are, with Mitch McConnell voting that moving forward with an impeachment against a no longer sitting President is unconstitutional, after he ensured that there would be no impeachment trial until after the President was out of office. Here we are, with Representative and House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell telling the Senate that on January 6th, a member of the far right group the Oath Keepers had breached the Capitol, was receiving messages about the secure locations of lawmakers, and was planning on releasing gas. And yet, even with all this information in front of them, the chances that enough Republicans will vote in favor of conviction are still slim to none.
