TTH wrote:
Ivyguy wrote:
An impeachment trial is emphatically *not* a proceeding in a court of law. In fact the rules of procedure in an impeachment trial are not very well defined AFAIK.
Impeachment is fundamentally a political and not judicial act.
Right. The impeachment trial is going to consist of, unfortunately, multiple days of someone screaming on Trump's behalf that the election was stolen no matter what evidence is presented or comments are made in rebuttal. That is all it is going to be. Trump will then have few to no Republicans vote against him and he will continue to control the Republican Party. Nothing has changed.
I don't see any logical reason for Trump's attorneys making a case for election fraud in the Senate. If they make claims about suitcases full of Biden votes, dead people voting, food trucks without food, spikes from 200K Biden votes and underage voters, they will come across as being just as crazy as Giuliani. I can't believe they would be willing to do so.
For Trump, he really does believe he won by a landslide, there is evidence to prove it, he will be exonerated and the cheating Democrats be held responsible for the attack on the Capitol. As a result, he will remain the leader of the GOP, become the frontrunner for 2024 and even get his Twitter account back.