'There will never, ever have been an American president with the power that Donald Trump possesses right now in this moment,' Steve Schmidt argued.
"Do we want to have at the head of our country a president? Or do we want to have a king? Do we want to have an emperor?" he asked."Do we want to have somebody that sits above the law? Do we want to have somebody who is unaccountable to the institutions that, from the beginning of the country, have said that no institution, no person in the country is above the law?"
The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, is set to vote Wednesday on whether to remove or acquit Trump on the impeachment charges formally leveled by the House of Representatives in December. It appears all but certain that Trump will be acquitted, which was widely expected by most analysts from the outset of the impeachment process.
Currently, it's unclear if all the Democrats in the Senate will even vote for removal. When moderate Democrat Joe Manchin spoke from the Senate floor on Monday, he criticized Trump's actions but suggested that the chamber should instead move to censure the president, not remove him from office.
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