Report: Trump Not Planning On Aggressively Fighting Against Impeachment

President Donald J. Trump shrugs while speaking with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Friday, April 10, ... President Donald J. Trump shrugs while speaking with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Friday, April 10, 2020. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump reportedly isn’t interested in putting up a tough fight against House Democrats’ move toward impeaching him for an unprecedented second time, unlike during last year’s impeachment saga.

A White House official told Politico that Trump knows the GOP-controlled Senate will keep him safe, and that he has also become distrustful of White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.

“We’re not building out an aggressive operation to combat these impeachment charges,” the official said. “It’s just logistically impossible. Counsel’s office has hollowed out obviously, Cipollone hasn’t been in the President’s circle.”

On Monday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced his and Reps. David Cicilline (D-RI), Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) article of impeachment that charged Trump with “incitement of insurrection” after the President encouraged his followers to storm the Capitol last week. Politico reported that a majority of the House backs the article, which has at least 218 cosponsors.

Trump’s reported response to potentially getting impeached again marks a startling contrast to his aggressive efforts to defend himself from impeachment last year over his pressure campaign against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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  1. Avatar for elkal elkal says:

    Looks like he’s gonna use the Dope-a-dope strategy

  2. Avatar for grack grack says:

    He’ll be too busy leading the United States of Texabama.

  3. He figures that the Senate will stall and/or acquit.

  4. For someone seeking to work outside the mainstream, impeachment is a feature not a bug. More profitable by far to let himself be impeached and then raise money off it.

  5. A White House official told Politico that Trump knows the GOP-controlled Senate will keep him safe.

    We all know that the impeachment process can’t move fast enough to actually remove Trump before the 20th. No Senate trial will occur during the final 8 days of GOP control. After that, the Democrats can conduct a non-sham trial that actually enters evidence into the proceedings. He can still be convicted in absentia.

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