The Impeachment of President Donald J Trump

[Admiral Yi]

I'm assuming the senate vote isn't a anonymous thing?

Correct

[Razgovory]

Tulsi Gabbard voted present.

She has a career at Fox News to think about.

[FunkMonk]

Trump got impeached lol

[Sophie Scholl]

I'm assuming the senate vote isn't a anonymous thing?

There was some talk of making it that way due to witness tampering/threats from Trump and his team, but it never panned out to anything from what I can tell.  I think it would yield a very different result if it were anonymous.

[HisMajestyBOB]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

[jimmy olsen]

Yes, how could that possibly happen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election

The important part of my statement was the three years. Obama was momentarily as unpopular, Trump has been in that 53 to 56 percent zone disapprove for nearly his whole term.

[Josquius]

What an awful system. 2/3 in the senate... have parties ever held so much?

[Tamas]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

The Republicans have long become a radical reactionary party and doubled down on Trump. They'll acquit him with record speed.

[Admiral Yi]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

Definitely not sit on it.  For one thing McConnel probably wants to get it all done before the Bolton, Mulvaney et al subpoenas make their way through the courts.

[Maladict]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

The Republicans have long become a radical reactionary party and doubled down on Trump. They'll acquit him with record speed.

I don't know, that might not sit well with moderate voters. If they still exist, that is.

[Tamas]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

The Republicans have long become a radical reactionary party and doubled down on Trump. They'll acquit him with record speed.

I don't know, that might not sit well with moderate voters. If they still exist, that is.

Tribe over nation, mate.

[Grey Fox]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

Definitely not sit on it.  For one thing McConnel probably wants to get it all done before the Bolton, Mulvaney et al subpoenas make their way through the courts.

I think McRussian sits on it. He sits on everything & the senators need to go campaign.

[Legbiter]

The important part of my statement was the three years. Obama was momentarily as unpopular, Trump has been in that 53 to 56 percent zone disapprove for nearly his whole term.

That's about where he was when he got elected in 2016. Now he's going to in part run against the House in 2020 for impeaching him and the legislative is always more unpopular than the executive. 

[The Minsky Moment]

The GOP party boss has spoken, so expect the Senate to respond accordingly:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-says-impeachment-case-against-trump-is-fabricated/ar-BBY9AuN?ocid=spartandhp

[Barrister]

So any bets on what the Senate will do?
Sit on it?
Immediate vote to acquit?
An actual trial?

Definitely not sit on it.  For one thing McConnel probably wants to get it all done before the Bolton, Mulvaney et al subpoenas make their way through the courts.

Well one option I've heard thrown around is that the House might not immediately send it to the Senate - that Pelosi might sit on it.  This would be a means of leverage to try and ensure fair terms of a trial in the Senate.