At this point it is unlikely more than 3 to 8 Republicans in the Senate will vote in support. 17 is a real stretch. Impeachment conviction remains unlikely.
The first big mistake was to let Trump run for President. It damaged the Republican party very hard (and the US as a nation too). I am afraid that no impeachment would be the second big mistake the Republicans can make. Trump will terrorize and blackmail the party again. Trump will attack all Republicans that caused him trouble. Mc Connell will be on top of the list. Trump wants to be the leader of that party and reign as a dictator. Trump only cares about himself, not about the US.
Woefully inept anal-ysis. Trump IS the leader of the party and McConnell and other RINOs are throwing away any power they think they have by disavowing the MAGA movement. The movement, which includes Trump, only strengthens from here.
Yeah, the fact that there was almost no rioters to be seen anywhere yesterday, shows that the Trump movement will soon be dead. A lot of Qanon rioters realize now that they got scammed. And the mysterious Q disappeared from internet. The only person who has at this moment no official function and so also no power in the Republican party is Trump.
I recommend bookmarking my posting. You've come up with the the ass end of the stick in your anal-ysis.
All your predictions were wrong. Trump lost everything, not just Presidency, but also the Senate and the House. The excuse that elections were manipulated is a fake excuse as all cases on all levels of Courts were rejected. If Trump would have had REAL and HARD proof he would have used it. But you cannot use what you don't have.
I don't expect folks on the Left Side to get it yet. ----They will in the fullness of time though and I have the patience of Job---
I am no leftist, I am a little bit more to the right than the center of the Republicans. But I knew how Trump is. He is a narcissistic psychopath and he should never have been President. It is clear that a lot of Republicans were real idiots and let him run for presidency. What happened was predictable and destructive for the Republican party as well as for the US. The only thing Trump did well is create chaos in the US. Vladimir is the only person who is satisfied with what Trump did.