In this historic week, Trump became the third  president in U.S. history to be impeached. Unlike his recent  predecessors who faced the process, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton,  Trump showed no remorse; rather as the vote was occurring, Trump blasted  impeachment and his political opponents in a two-hour meandering speech  at a campaign rally in Michigan. Even by his standards, his rhetoric  was mean and petty — invoking a deceased Congressman, and suggesting he  was watching from hell as his wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, voted for  impeachment.

Republicans continued to stand by Trump like  sycophants. The hubris of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and  Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying their minds were made up and the Senate  impeachment trial would not be fair, led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to  hold the articles of impeachment, refusing to transmit them before  Congress recessed for the holiday break. Reporting continued to expose  Trump’s strange ties to Russia, while in plain sight Trump allied with  Russian President Vladimir Putin while continuing his frosty  relationship with Ukraine.

As Trump continued his war on the so-called deep  state, the exodus of senior employees at the Pentagon continued, and  morale at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s office plummeted. The country  felt on edge and divided as Congress and Trump departed, with Pelosi in  control of the process, and no clear road ahead. Christianity Today, a mainstream evangelical magazine, called for Trump’s removal in a scathing op-ed, calling him “profoundly immoral.”

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