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Trump’s lawyers will now have the floor, and it is expected their defense will be concluded within a single day. If that happens and assuming witnesses are not called the entire proceedings could conclude by Saturday or Sunday.
Trump’s lead lawyers, Bruce Castor and David Schoen, will be hoping to improve on their opening arguments from earlier in the week. Castor’s performance, in particular, was widely panned and was reported to have left the former president irate as he watched at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago.
The Trump team doesn’t need to do very much to gain an acquittal for their client. No more than six Republican senators have so far even agreed that the impeachment trial is constitutional. The chance of the necessary number voting to convict 17 Republicans, assuming the Democrats all vote to do so seems vanishingly small.