Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he will run the Senate impeachment trial “in total coordination” with the White House, which means he’ll probably frame it in a way that benefits President Trump. When asked why, he says the answer is obvious: because everyone knows Trump’s going to be acquitted anyway by the Republican-controlled Senate, so why bother?
“We all know how this is going to end,” McConnell said on “Fox and Friends” last week.
The limited history of Senate impeachment trials — there has been only one in the modern era — doesn’t give us much insight into whether this is normal. Continue reading