Don't give President Donald Trump the satisfaction of an acquittal. Instead, focus on taking the Senate.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a very strategic move when she decided that the House of Representatives would not immediately transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate. This should certainly shine a light on why the Senate process, now that President Donald Trump has been impeached, cannot blithely become a show trial geared toward projecting the notion that the president was the victim of a partisan hit job by the other chamber.
That would have meant two things. First, a majority of the Senate would have found Trump guilty, which would have created an aura of bipartisanship around the entire effort and beat back Trump's claims that this was merely a Democratic"witch hunt.
If, by some chance in the next two months, some new information emerges that makes it possible to sway swing-state Senate incumbents up for re-election to vote against Trump, thus bringing on primary challengers, then Pelosi should indeed send the articles over to the Senate. However, that would have to happen before the Republican Senate primary filing deadlines, most of which are prior to mid-March.
Whether we have a trial ending in an acquittal, or no trial and no acquittal, what all this means is that the jurors are really going to be the American public, and that the verdict will be rendered in November. Which is just what the Republicans have been arguing should happen—that impeachment and removal would deprive the voters of their right to decide.
The result: Impeachment stands. There is no trial acquitting Trump. Trump cannot claim Senate vindication. The Republicans are left arguing that they want to withhold from the public what it needs to make an informed decision.
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