February 17, 2021 5:10 p.m.
At a press conference Saturday after the Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection, the House impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) was asked why the prosecution against Trump hadn’t fought harder to include witness testimony during the impeachment trial.
Plaskett argued that the team had established the facts of the case without witnesses and besides, she said, the process of dragging witnesses before Congress could cost “months of litigation.”
“They are still litigating McGahn in Impeachment One, a year later,” she said, referring to former White House Counsel Don McGahn.
That name, McGahn, has become a short-hand for a particularly Trumpian legal strategy that proved remarkably effective at stymying oversight during the Trump years: Delay, delay, delay.
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As Barack Obama noted after act one, “we’d be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise”.
What remains uncertain is whether this is the moment that the fever breaks and the nation gets back on track or merely a harbinger of further polarisation, violence and decline.
Liz Cheney and nine other Republicans who joined Democrats in a 232-197 bipartisan vote to impeach Trump did not provide a comprehensive answer to that question. Yes, it was 10 more than the first impeachment just over a year ago and, yes, there are cracks in the dam. But it has not yet burst.