'There was more uncertainty about the outcome of Soviet show trials than there is about the charade taking place in the U.S. Senate,' says usatodayopinion contributor djrothkopf.
The political consequences in this fall’s presidential election will not be not insignificant, either. Trump barely won his last victory, eking it out with fewer thanin three states.
Further, some of the cases raised in the impeachment regarding the power of the Congress to issue subpoenas may, ultimately, produce verdicts that shore up that power despite the president’s best efforts to negate it. And this groundwork could produce more effective investigations in the future including, if circumstances warrant, further impeachment investigations on other matters.
An acquittal, it must be acknowledged, may also be seen as giving Trump license to continue his bad behavior and supporting dangerous precedents, like the deeply un-American, anti-democratic notions that the president is above the law or that Congress is not a coequal branch of government. These great risks are not to be minimized.
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