Now Trump Is Tampering With His "Jury"

The role of the Senate in the impeachment process is to consider the articles of impeachment brought by the House, and to act as jurors in a trial to determine whether to remove a sitting President, while the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides. Since pathological liar and corrupt con artist Donald "Very Stable Genius" Trump started soiling the Oval Office, he's been his own witness for the prosecution against himself. First, openly bragging that he removed former FBI Director James Comey because of "the Russia thing," then obstructing the investigation of the Russia interference scandal some 10 times (according to volume 2 of the Mueller Report), and then publicly calling for Ukraine and China to manufacture dirt on his political opponents.

Now, it's being reported by Politico that Trump is getting his fundraising operation to provide resources to a number of Rethuglican Senators who will be sitting as "jurors" in the expected Senate trial:

"President Donald Trump is rewarding senators who have his back on impeachment — and sending a message to those who don't to get on board.

Trump is tapping his vast fundraising network for a handful of loyal senators facing tough reelection bids in 2020. Each of them has signed onto a Republican-backed resolution condemning the inquiry as 'unprecedented and undemocratic.' [snip]  Trump is exerting leverage over a group he badly needs in his corner with an impeachment trial likely coming soon to the Senate — but that also needs him.

Republican senators on the ballot next year are lagging in fundraising, stoking uncertainty about the GOP’s hold on the chamber, and could use the fundraising might of the president. Trump’s political operation has raked in over $300 million this year."

With public opinion shifting in favor of impeaching and removing Trump, the infusion of cash into the reelection campaigns of key Rethug Senators is intended to buck up their support for Trump in the coming trial. Senators Gardner (CO), Ernst (IA), and Tillis (NC) are all in tight reelections, and may have considered splitting off from Dear Leader. But with his bribes, they are more likely to support the corrupt Trump as the evidence of his illegal activities mounts.

(photo: Fingering the guilty party)