Impeachment is a lost cause at this point. Focus on 2020.

[JaneQPublic]

13. Trump deserves impeachment, but what's the end game?

With McConnell's Senate, the chances are zilch of impeachment leading to conviction and removal from office.

But let's say Senate GOPers decide they want 45 gone, too, and vote to convict. That puts Pence in office, allowing him to run as the incumbent AND to pardon Trump on day one.

In that case, Trump misses out on the last year of office, but is free to move to Moscow and build his Russian Trump Tower.

The most likely scenario is the House impeaches and the Senate "exonerates," to use the word 45 wI'll no doubt use.

Yes, Trump will go down in history as an impeached president, but in the present he'll campaign on beating the Dems' attempt to oust him.

And what do we Dems get from it? Satisfaction of pursuing justice? At the same time, we just made all our many freshman reps in Orange County and elsewhere walk the plank to vote for impeachment and endanger reelection.

If they lose, we are in danger of losing the House. Worth it?

I agree with Pelosi: I want to see Trump in prison, which he may well be if we don't letr him get pardoned OR reelected.