The British and their allies in Washington are scheming on how to wring a conviction against Donald Trump out of the Senate, when his impeachment case goes to trial on Feb. 8. They need 67 votes, which means all 50 Democrats and at least 17 Republicans. Even a highly mobilized CNN admits that, at this point, they don’t have it.
The British are hell-bent on getting a conviction, so that they can immediately proceed to bar Trump from ever holding elective office again, which would only require a simple majority in the Senate. Why the insistence? “Trump created a cult of personality that is hard to dismantle,” a former senior Republican official was quoted. “Conviction could do that.”
