house. accusing paxton of bribery, dereliction of duty, and abuse of public trust. all to help one of his donors. joining me right now, msnbc s priscilla thompson. priscilla welcome, what more can you tell us about what is going to happen now. and what all the senators had to consider? yeah alex, just a short while ago senators are going to walk into the chamber. that voting process well again, each of those 16 articles of impeachment are going to be red, and those senators will have an opportunity to vote on each one. it only takes a vote to impeach on one of those articles for ken paxton to ultimately be impeached, it will require a two thirds majority and over for that to happen. their authority senators that are going to be voting. 12 democrats, 18 republicans. that is what we are waiting to see, but as he mentioned, this comes after many days of testimony. people hearing from former, some of paxton s former top staffers detailing this abuse of power that they say that
trump has abused various forms of media to attack celebrities and politicians and others who he thinks has scorned him. the practice persisted throughout his presidency as a use social media and other platforms to riddick cool his own cabinet, among them many others by the way. the behavior has continued over the past few months as the indictments piled up against different jurisdictions around the country. he made disparaging comments about the prosecutors who brought the cases against him and the judges who are assigned to those cases as well as people in could be potential witnesses. about a month ago, just a few days after he was criminally indicted for a fourth time donald trump posted an alarming threat in all caps on truth social which read, if you go after me, i m coming after you. the post was cited in an earlier motion raising their concern with the judge that the former president might use evidence related to who his legal team to improperly target witnesses and in