It is time for the U.S. Senate to convict President Trump, remove him from office and disqualify him from holding any “office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”Not because he’s a Republican. The only possible answer: Their priority was to protect Trump (and their own political fortunes), not to establish the truth. In defending Trump before the Senate, the president’s lawyers offered a grab bag of political and legal arguments, some of them mutually inconsistent. Given not only the incriminating testimony in the House but everything we know about Trump, that defies common sense. As the House noted in its first article of impeachment, Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government in the 2020 election to benefit himself and harm his opponent.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 31, 2020 22:41 UTC