Harold Meyerson’s Coverage of Trump Impeachment II

Relive the highlights and lowlights of the Senate trial.

February 15, 2021

5:00 AM

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Senate Television via AP

The Defense Trump Deserved—Meandering, Self-Contradictory, and Off-Topic

Senate Trial, Day One: The prosecution comes on strong. The defense gets lost in the weeds.
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Senate Television via AP

How Many Republican Senators Were Part of ‘Trump’s Mob’?

Senate Trial, Day Two: The dereliction was even worse than the incitement.
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Senate Television via AP

‘What Makes You Think It’s Over?’

Senate Trial, Day Three: If Trump’s not convicted, the prosecutors say, it all could happen again.
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Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP

Anyone Want to Be Trump’s Next Veep?

Senate Trial, Day Four: It’s Trump’s war on Pence, even as the insurrection raged, that matters most to swing GOP senators.
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Senate Television via AP

And Yet It Moves

The Senate impeachment trial closes; the fact of Trump’s guilt will outlast the Republicans’ fiction-based acquittal

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The Defense Trump Deserved—Meandering, Self-Contradictory, and Off-Topic

How Many Republican Senators Were Part of ‘Trump’s Mob’?

‘What Makes You Think It’s Over?’

Anyone Want to Be Trump’s Next Veep?

And Yet It Moves