going to be politically toxic. he said to her, i agree with you trump is a danger to democracy. but let s just ignore him, he started to worry if they convicted trump it might empower him more and he would be a martyr and come back. it said that mitch mcconnell considered this an off ramp. that says that s not your conscience talking that s looking for a way out of a difficult situation. and it s difficult for republicans to follow their guts, conscience, and buck a figure like trump and mcconnell thought of this as something that would get him out of that predictment. trump drove down that off ramp and is still driving down the highway. yeah. mitch mcconnell didn t want trump to be able to run for president again. however, he was getting some legal advice that even if the senate convicted and said you
these, even though he was fighting handing them over without making that claim. he s just making stuff up now. so think about the delay. in this case, just based on my experience, they didn t want trump at mar-a-lago during the raid. that s just clear to me. so trump finally left mar-a-lago for the investigation, for yet another investigation up in new york. he was he pled the fifth 100 plus times during that investigation of his financial dealings. you would not want trump there. they were timing it with the secret service or whomever else to make sure it didn t become the kind of circus that trump inevitably made it. i don t think much of that delay at all and there was a weekend in there. it s not silliness, it s just a way that the trump people deflect the substance because they have no defense at this stage. so they either create procedural mythology about how things work or, of course, as we know, they sort of ratchet up the violence