"There’s a clear understanding at the White House and among Senate Republicans that they want the same thing: to get it done as quickly as possible because it’s been distracting from the policy accomplishments that they’ve been achieving together," said Ron Bonjean, a former Senate leadership aide who is in contact with White House officials.
One tension point is that Republican senators in tight re-election races want as little attention to the trial as possible, because it inherently challenges their ability to stoke their political bases while attracting crossover votes from Democrats. Meanwhile, Trump typically sees his best political tactic as raising the stakes of any confrontation with adversaries.
Julian Zelizer, a historian and professor at Princeton University, said that while impeachment is different from a legislative issue, the Senate has historically dispatched matters of national importance, from civil rights to climate change and immigration, by silently voting"no." Aside from Trump's own conduct outside the chamber, one unknown, Bonjean said, is how the TV talking-head lawyers on his team — Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr and Pam Bondi among them — will engage in his defense.
jonallendc We can hope his inner fool & ego-mania will override his inner *chicken wimp* & 'best people'. Let him insist on witnesses [expecting all to perjure for him] & testify himself to prove his *manhood* & *innocence*. Yeehaw!
jonallendc Let the man defend hinself! That’s what his colleagues have been screaming for! For the Republicans who fear he will screw up their reelection, they have done that by supporting him! No matter what he does they defend him! They screwed themselves outtahere
jonallendc 'Attracting crossover votes from Democrats'? Rest assured, there are zero Democrats walking into that shit show, regardless of it's car-accident appeal.
jonallendc PERFECT. The ideal is Trump being around for 369 more days, while laying the Senate landmines that usher McConnell out of majority leadership at the same time. He just adds to the odds of a Blur Triple Crown.... superb
jonallendc 'A win'
jonallendc I’m so sick of NBC’s rhetoric on Trump. I hope the network fails in the near future.
jonallendc GO FOR IT, FOOL!!!
jonallendc Fake news
jonallendc I just noticed trumps plane pilot was not a minority!!! That’s racist he should have a black woman fly Air Force one!!! Everyone picket!!!
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jonallendc realDonaldTrump, a man who used bone spur to hid when his country called his number to Service now calling those who answered the call “dopes and babies”! Imagine how low we have sunk in 3yrs!
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