'As forgettable as any given senator may be, presidential impeachments do have a way of standing out in the historical record'
The only view that matters to Trump, other than his own. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The Senate is circled with mediocrities. The busts of 20 of the 21 vice presidents surround the chamber and it is a grim bunch. Although the collection starts with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the quality of those enshrined drops off very quickly. Of the remaining 18, the most accomplished and gifted was likely John Calhoun.
Rogan raged at the time that it was “a sham trial” but Trent Lott, the Republican leader at the time, dismissed his concerns. “You can call it a sham trial,” recalled Rogan. “We are going to trial, the president is going call it a trial, America going to call it a trial and the history books call it a trial.”
Perhaps the only speaker to make an impact throughout the trial was celebrity criminal-defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz. The octogenarian facing scrutiny for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein asserted during the question and answer period, “if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.
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