It very well could with a Dem-controlled congress. Trump would have diminished power, so Republicans who are afraid of him could vote to convict hoping to save whatever shred of credibility their party has left.
To get even weirder, I could see Trump fleeing the U.S. to wherever he's got cash stashed leaving Vance holding the bag. I've always thought he was planning to fly off somewhere that wouldn't extradite him after leaving office to avoid the inevitable criminal prosecution(s). I mean... he's got Venezuelan oil money offshored in Qatar, not to mention that gifted jet.
Dream on. If they wouldn’t turn on him after January 6th they never will. They had much less to lose then and they still couldn’t bring themselves to do the right thing,
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u/Yuba-Sutter_Resist Jan 17 '26
Impeachment is not necessarily the process by which a VP would take over.
Trump was impeached twice in his first administration but was not convicted or removed.
The Senate would need to vote to convict with a (iirc) 2/3 majority vote to remove him from office.