Make your predictions here. Questions are as follows.
Will the senate impeachment trial take place?
Will the chief justice preside over it?
Will Trump be convicted?
Will Trump be barred from holding further office?
My answers. 1)Yes, dems can’t help themselves, 2)No, he can read the constitution, 3)no, without the chief justice Republicans have alternate cover, 4)If he were to be convicted he will be barred, that’s the whole point.
The dems are stupidly going to go for it. I hear they don’t have the votes however.
Lindsey Graham (not that i entirely trust him) says that every republican other than maybe a couple(we know who they are ) will vote against conviction. He thinks maybe they will pick up a dem vote as well.
Since they need a 2 thirds vote that leaves the dems out of luck except for picking up a lot of ill will.
What exactly did the President say that you want him held accountable for? I’ll bet you can’t quote anything? I think you’re regurgibleating right now what you’ve eaten but…prove me wrong?
They will probably lose those few Republicans and maybe even some Democrats when the chief justice refuses to attend their show trial of a private citizen.
The precedent you are setting would make it possible for any lame duck president to do whatever he wants - absue power, enrich himself, violate his oath in any way he chooses - and not face consequences.