Trump's basic strategy was to spew a firehose of lies, disinformation, corruption, crimes, assaults, constitutional offenses etc. day after day after day, on the hope that no one would have the time to pick any one of them and hold him accoutable. The idea being that there had been so many other atrocities after the one that is chosen that it seemed too minor to just prosecute the one. And that worked pretty well for him because he had a Trump Cult base that just thought he was the cat's meow. Appalling, but I guess that is just the way cults are.
Well, guess what? When he called for riotous crowds to arrive on January 6,2021 to disrupt and overturn the the recording of certified Electoral College votes in the Capitol, and then went before his mob in the morning and exhorted them to be very brave and change the count, he actually did something that has never happened in the history of American democracy - he not only refused to accept the vote, but he sent a mob to overturn the vote, and to overturn it with violence.
Well, it turns out the when the Senators and Congresspeople have their lives threatened for simply accepting the results of an election, they aren't happy about it. The House of Representatives voted today, including 10 Repiublicans, to impeach Donald J Trump. Again.
Mitch McConnell in his last, and again disgraceful act, as head of the Senate announced he will not hold an emergency trial in the Senate. OK, so what? The impeachment will go to the Senate later and the president will likely be found guilty of inciting violence to overturn an election, and he will be the only president ever impeached and found guilty. So he will never be able to hold Federal Office again. And, wonder of wonders, his power to control his cult and to bully elected Republicans will just shrink away, like the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz, and we can all watch his pathetic orange self collapse and whine "I'm shrinking, I'm shrinking!"
Ta da.
