The evidence wasn’t strong enough to overcome the party politics lol.
The founders *intended* to make removal from office difficult for a reason: because the temptation would be for the opposing party to use impeachment as means to effect an electoral change and that power belongs in the hands of the people.
Basically, the first impeachment was a misguided effort that shouldn’t have occurred. Pelosi actually knew this, at one point.
This one is no better. In an actual trial democrats will need more than rhetoric in order to establish their predicate [that Trump incited the protesters to riot]. They are going to need evidence. Failing that, they can hope for enough squishy republicans to give a ‘virtue signal vote’ to remove Trump from office. Except he will no longer be there.
Like I said, this one is no better than the last; in fact, it’s arguably absurd. But these are democrats in the Trump era, so yeah.
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