A Study in Senate Cowardice

Jeffrey Goldberg argues that Republicans like Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) could have ended Donald Trump’s political career. They just chose not to.

“Portman was one of 43 Republican senators who voted against conviction. Sixty-seven votes were required to convict. If 10 additional Republican senators had joined the 50 Democrats and seven Republicans who voted for conviction, Trump would not today be the party’s presumptive nominee for president, and the country would not be one election away from a constitutional crisis and a possibly irreversible slide into authoritarianism.”