This entanglement is already underway. While Washington, D.C. is brimming with thousands of soldiers, police, and surveillance technology, the Trump militants are unfazed. They are planning more protests.
According to Pentagon officials, reported in the New York Times, "Some 16 groups -- some of them saying they will be armed and most of them made up of hardline supporters of Mr. Trump -- have registered to stage protests...This cannot be good political news for the Congressional Republicans left behind after the Trump family departs the White House.
What are the probabilities that a conviction in the Senate will be achieved? Better than 50/50, given the survival instincts of the politicians wanting the felonious Trump off their backs.
As for Trump, what he has left until noon on January 20th, barring some last-gasp grotesque eruption, is the pardon power for his closest allies like Rudy Giuliani, his family, and himself. He could enlarge the range of pardons by declaring a Day of Forgiveness on January 19th with general pardons of deserving, elderly prisoners, political prisoners, and nonviolent drug offenders in the federal prisons.
However, such a vision is inconsistent with narcissism. We'll see.
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