Moscow Mitch has publicly admitted (boasted) that he will run the senate trial of the soon-to-be impeached president in accordance with the White House wishes. The name for this COLLUSION. Or conspiracy. Or rigging a trial in advance and publicizing that fact. This is in direct violation of McConnell’s oath to run an impartial trial and is specifically against his constitutional responsibility. So the senate majority leader will NOT confer with the Democrats to come to an accord, but will be bound by Donnie’s wishes and whims. This is distinctly different from the Clinton impeachment where all 100 senators agreed to the terms of the trial. But Donnie deserves special treatment because, well, he’s the Donald! Because Mitch and his ilk have taken a new pledge, contrary to the pledge we all learned in elementary school. “I pledge allegiance to Donald Trump and to the corruption for which he stands. One nation, under Trump, VERY divisible. With garbage and alternate facts for all.” This third-finger salute to our Democracy, nakedly acknowledging that the senate trial will be a sham, not even having the decency of PRETENDING that McConnell cares about his constitutional duty to hold a fair trial bespeaks the Mad Cow disease that has infected former Republicans, and turned them all into Trumpublicans. More about the danger and delusions of Trumpublicans in another post.