Donald Trump just gave away how petrified he is of what’s about to happen to him
Donald Trump and his allies tried really hard this week to push the narrative that they’re loving the impeachment process, because it’s somehow magically helping them. There’s zero evidence of this, but in Trump land, evidence is frowned upon anyway. The thing is, though, Trump keeps giving away that he knows this isn’t going well for him – and he just tipped off that he’s petrified of what comes next.
Check out this Donald Trump tweet from Saturday: “Adam Schiff will be compelled to testify should the Democrats decide, despite the fact that my presidential conversations were totally appropriate (perfect), to go forward with the Impeachment Hoax.”
Trump is making a last ditch attempt at trying to convince Adam Schiff and the House Democrats not to move forward with impeachment, by vowing to force Schiff to testify as a witness at the Senate impeachment trial. To be clear, this is an empty threat. Mitch McConnell will be the one to finalize the Senate impeachment trial witness list, and he’ll do whatever he think is best for himself, not simply what Trump wants.
But even setting aside the fact that this is an empty threat, it’s significant that Donald Trump is making the threat at all. If he truly welcomed impeachment, or if he thought this was going well for him, he wouldn’t be trying to bully Adam Schiff into dropping the whole thing.
In reality, Donald Trump’s eventual Senate impeachment trial will gain him zero new 2020 election votes no matter how it plays out. It’ll force Senate Republicans to nervously try to calculate if their own reelection odds will be hurt the most by acquitting or convicting him. It’ll weaken the GOP and it’ll weaken Trump, whether he’s ousted or not. Trump seems to know it, too, or he wouldn’t be trying to extort Schiff into killing the impeachment process.
