It is for all these points that I called this procedure "piss-poor political 'kabuki theater'"....while it is a certainty that the Dems will push the impeachment through, it all dies in the Senate anyway—even if there is a trial—because the Dems have nowhere near the 2/3rds of the chamber—even with a few Republican 'defections'—needed to produce an actual criminal conviction. What a colossal waste of time, money, and resources.