Too many compromised Never Trumpers in the Senate. Anything done there on this is risky, because one manipulative media blowup could give them enough cover to strike.
It’ll likely blow over without consequence, but the risk of Trump’s actual removal is there and shouldn’t be played with.
Too many compromised Never Trumpers in the Senate. Anything done there on this is risky, because one manipulative media blowup could give them enough cover to strike.
“...the risk of Trump’s actual removal is there and shouldn’t be played with.”
There is nowhere near enough support for removal in the Senate - zero chance - but whether there is or there isn’t, the strategy should be the same:
Let the House Democrats continue to behave like jackasses, with the world watching. Then when it gets to the Senate, let the American people finally hear a real debate - and as with the Kavanaugh hearings, the Democrats will reveal their partisan hate and shameful dishonesty to the American people, while the Republicans will fall squarely in line with the President and with the truth.
Sure a couple RINO neverTrumpers like Romney will try to stab him in the back, but what can they say? As with the Kavanaugh hearings, the worst they can do is delay the process a bit like Flake did, by saying things like “We should hear both sides”. But in this case, hearing both sides is likely to damage them more than us - because they broke the law - Trump didn’t. The more they shovel, the deeper they will dig their own graves...more rope to have themselves with...hoisted by their own petards.
Regardless of any Romney backstabbing, it will be a slam dunk win for President Trump, once it gets to the Senate.
The President is not only completely safe from removal - he is actually benefiting hugely from all of this, because in an election year, while the Democrats are fooled by their own fake news, they are foolishly ignoring the elephant in the room: “It’s the economy, stupid!”
Four years with a great economy, the sky is not falling, WWIII didn’t start, and the Democrats are off on wild goose chases, or pushing wildly unpopular policies like socialism, open borders, gun grabbing, late term abortion, and allowing men in girls’ locker rooms?
By picking a fight with the DC deep state, President Trump has managed to work it so that even four years later, he gets to run as the outsider, the change candidate - against the corrupt DC establishment! Genius!
Things couldn’t be looking better for 2020.