Trump Will Happily Settle for an Acquittal
At one point last month, President Donald Trump announced that he might just testify at his own impeachment inquiry, so eager was he to prove his innocence. It never happened. He said Hunter Biden and the whistle-blower should be forced to testify too, as payback for their heresies. Don’t count on that either.
In the end, Trump will settle for a no-muss Senate trial that results in a speedy acquittal, White House aides and a person close to him told me. The verdict won’t serve up that satisfying cocktail of revenge and vindication he seems to crave, but he’ll take it and move on. “A perfunctory trial and an end to this—that’s the preferred scenario,” said a White House official, who like others I talked with for this story spoke on the condition
