Hear me out....
Nixon's resignation: Even after the Republicans finally got on board, after the tapes came out and asked him to resign, and BEFORE he could be impeached, the Republicans still lost 40 House seats and 8 Senate seats.
Trump will be impeached. He can't resign after impeachment, though, even if asked, which the Republican Senate will do, so they don't have to go on the record.
Trump faces too many criminal charges once he leaves office. So he's trying to run out the statute of limitations clock by getting re-elected.
Trump will take his chances at trial and try to sway public opinion.
After the actual Senate trial, however, any Senate Republican who does not vote to convict him and remove him from office faces the very real risk that he will lose his Senate seat.
This is all about staying in power. Once Trump is weakened, and can't hurt the Republicans anymore, they will stampede to the mics "to do what's best for the country".
Indeed he will
1) The House is controlled by the Demo Rats
2) The House is populated by liars
Adam Schiff Epitomizes the Total Collapse of Democratic Party Integrity
US Rep. Adam Schiff, Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, had no qualms about
lying through his teeth in his opening statement prior to the testimony of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. Everyone present had read the transcript of the telephone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky, and everyone knew that what Schiff, who said he was reading from the transcript of the telephone call, was saying was not in the transcript. How can it be that the chairman of a House committee in a room full of newspersons and TV cameras has no qualms about intentionally misrepresenting the written record in order to make it conform to the lies the Democrats and their stable of corrupt presstitutes have spread about a telephone call revealed by an alleged whistleblower, a likely Democrat operative, who claimed to have heard it second hand."
3) The Lamestream Media keeps the controversy alive because it hurts Trumps and Biden and favors their favorite candidate Elizabeth Warren -
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