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Don't get bogged down in the minutiae of President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial. Here are the 10 big things you need to know.Yes. His attempt to get a foreign power to help him win the 2020 election is precisely the sort of thing the framers of the Constitution worried about when they created the impeachment clause. If presidents could seek foreign help to win elections, there would be no end of foreign intrusions into American sovereignty and democracy.No.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to hold a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 27.Trump will claim that his upcoming acquittal by the Senate clears him of all charges, just as he claimed that Attorney General William Barr's whitewash of the Robert Mueller report absolved him of charges that he sought Russian help in the 2016 election.
To be sure, the Republican Party will try to suppress the votes of likely Democrats, Russia will almost certainly try again to help Trump, billionaires and big corporations will spend vast sums seeking to get Trump re-elected, and the Electoral College will further handicap the Democratic candidate. But Democrats and independents are fired up. The 2018 midterm elections featured the highest turnout of any midterm election since 1914, handing House Republicans their most resounding defeat in decades. The"blue wave" in 2020 could be a tsunami.The views expressed in this article are the author's own.
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