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If the house doesn’t deliver the articles then they didn’t finish the process by the rules they set for themselves...then Trump doesn’t need any sort of acquittal because he was never impeached.

2. A trial is now a good thing. Not a little good thing. It is a “chop the other party to pieces with chainsaws good thing.

Mitch implemented the impeachment process used with Clinton.
The Senate has assigned a prosecution team and a defense team. All this information that Trump has declassified and that came from other investigations is fair game.

With the American people watching and with the pundits and newsmen taken out of the picture all of that can where relevant be read into the record. Republicans control both sides. There will be nobody there to object.

Obama was spying on Trump in 2015.
That goes into the record.
The FBI was required to inform the candidate setting up his foreign policy team of people he should stay away from. All of this endless stuff now will come out unfiltered by the media as the trial is broadcast.

So I personally doubt that the articles of impeachment will be transmitted and Trump’s impeachment will turn out not to have happened at the end of the day.

One aspect hasn’t been played out, namely the power of the Executive Branch to defend the Constitution from all enemies of the Constitution, both foreign and domestic.

If the vote to impeach is based upon fraudulent charges with intent to stage a coup, any vote so cast might be used as evidence in a hearing requiring capital punishment for those engaged in the coup.

There is another consideration. Since so many Democrats were clueless as to what they were actually voting for and its ramifications, there should be recourse when the votes were made with blatant ignorance but hateful intent.

as the trial is broadcast.

Maybe on C-Span not MSM alphabet networks, YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter. Maybe on FreeRepublic whose audience does not include the 300 million or so that don't read here.

I learned something at a union shop meeting one time 30 or so years back. They proclaimed that if it didn’t happen on the 5:00 clock news it didn't happen at all.