The President has already said publicly and cheerfully that he doesn’t “feel impeached”, which is exactly the right tone to adopt if the goal is to make Democrat heads explode, and to dampen the negative connotations of impeachment.
The idea here is that an impeachment is like an accusation, or a condemnation - it makes all the difference in the world who is doing the accusing, or the condemning - whether or not they lack credibility, whether or not they lack proof, whether or not they are negatively biased - as in this weak and partisan impeachment is clearly the case.
But now the President should go one step further and publicly announce that he hasn’t actually been impeached, until the Senate has received the articles. He should say this boldly and cheerfully and often.
Of course, “constitutional scholars” will come out of the woodwork arguing both sides, but that will only work to the President’s advantage, since it will raise doubts among the general public - and doubts are all he needs to render this sham of an impeachment entirely toothless.
I suppose the Democrats could ask for a court ruling, but I seriously doubt the courts would take up such an abstract matter - a question of semantics - especially when there is practical remedy so close at hand: namely, send the articles to the Senate!
I hope the President takes this approach and simply denies he is impeached. Democrat heads will explode and they will have no choice but to quickly send the articles to the Senate, or look even weaker if they don’t.
U made some great points.....excellent post!