As the inquiry into the impeachment of President Donald Trump are winding to a close, and the House of Representatives prepares for a full vote, I realize two things to be true:
Some GOP Senators will claim that while the President’s scheme was corrupt, possibly criminal, and perhaps undermined our national security, they do not have sufficient evidence for their purposefully murky criteria for impeachment and removal; and although the White House is defying subpoenas to produce related documents, they will decline to produce them.
If this moment plays out this way, it will be because: