I think the ‘gimmick’ here, to build on some impeachment, is to get ten years of tax records on Trump, and find a Cohen-like lie or two, within that, and try to run an entire impeachment like they ran the Cohen-smear. They required four Republicans to cross the line (which Romney would have been one of the four). My suspicion is that they added up the landscape in the last week.
Other than Romney’s vote...getting three more GOP senators to vote an impeachment into effect, wasn’t going to occur. If they lost the impeachment vote....that would have TURBOCHARGED the get-out-the-vote campaign in the Trump-30 states (from 2016). Instead of taking down Trump....you could be talking about all thirty Trump states, along with a three-million plus-up on votes, and then those stupid blue states who made the change to the Electoral College business, would have found all of their votes going to Trump. Electoral-wise, he might have taken 370-plus votes.
I do agree with you....the ‘hate’ is still pumped up, but go look at various news outlets in trouble. Last I saw....WaPo is in court and could lose that case with the MAGA kids. Several other outlets are being dragged in. The MAGA kids (by summer of 2020), might have taken over $700-million in damages. For some outlets, that’ll kill their profits for the entire year (maybe even two years).
Could a law suit loss push CNN off the air? The Dems. would lose their mouth piece to airports and other countries. Oh, the Dems. will reward CNN with 20 Presidential political candidates advertisements throughout the summer. If Soros kicks some money in, they could pick up a fast 100 million in Dem. political ads. They already have political operatives at the other ABC stations. They must keep hate alive? It will payoff in the long run.