US-politics

Trump is deflating. Delay his impeachment trial to help Biden and raise conviction odds.

When Donald Trump got himself impeached the first time, there was a whiff of political theater about the process. While the charges were immensely serious, the political environment made it unlikely that the Senate would treat them seriously. And so it proved, with the Senate refusing to even hear witnesses. But this time, it’s different. What Trump did to unleash the attack on the Capitol was so fundamentally wrong that there’s a real prospect of making this one stick. The House has already voted to impeach