Acquittal on a party line vote will all but enshrine the “right to do whatever I want' in Trump’s mind for the remainder of his presidency
Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, Maine senator Susan Collins, one of the possible but unlikely Republican swing votes in the Senate impeachment trial, announced she would vote to acquit President Trump.
A “pretty big lesson” is what a child learns after dropping a full soda on the carpet and being forced to spend a half-hour cleaning it up. That the impeachment process would impart on Trump even that small takeaway is generous, considering his past responses to formal and informal rebukes have been to completely spurn any sense of responsibility.
In case his inability to process his own actions wasn’t clear, during an earlier threat to his presidency, Trump claimed “total exoneration” from the Mueller investigation, though the actual report detailed the exact opposite outcome. As if those denials weren’t enough, there are the multiple statements positing something loosely resembling a Trump doctrine: The president has repeatedly said the Constitution gives him a blanket “right to do whatever I want.
It isn’t the first time Collins has shaped up to her party’s expectations with a statement that does not mesh with reality. A swing vote during the nomination process of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Collins ultimately advanced the judge, suggesting that Christine Blasey Ford’s credible allegation of sexual assault could have been a case of mistaken identity, while stating that she believed Kavanaugh would respect Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.
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