And also he could lose his pension, and other perks that ex-Presidents receive. So it’s worth doing.
Do they keep the impeachment trial going after he’s done being president?
Pretty sure no but since we’ve never been here where someone could ask the question I really don’t know. The main objective of impeachment is removal so it would seem it ends when he’s gone.
There is historical precedent for impeachment proceedings after someone leaves office.
In 1876, Secretary of War William Belknap resigned as the House was considering impeaching him for a newly revealed corruption scandal. The House impeached him anyway, and the Senate rejected a motion to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction over a former federal officer. Belknap was not convicted, in part because some senators doubted their authority to do so. Condemning Belknap’s actions and disqualifying him from future office seemed a sufficient reason to proceed for many in the House and Senate.
Did somebody count his eye blinks?
Wait…never mind…
Interesting comment from Yousef Munayyer:
Is it just me, or does his body language appear to anyone else as extremely restrained? Almost like there’s a straightjacket underneath the blazer. There’s no gesticulations, no manspreading… Every so often he seems to wince, as if somebody below camera is jabbing him with a fork. Weird.
And oddly Disney just got paid $2M for a new audio animatronic figure from the White House. Just a coincidence i am sure. 
I seem to remember the end of some House of Wax-ish story where the villain ends up as one of his own mannequins, just staring out at the world.
Donald Trump’s punishment? Having to serve as an animatronic figure in Disneyland Hall of Presidents.
I wouldnt wish that on any human being… 
Or in Pirates of the Caribbean.
How about we put him in the “It’s a Small World” ride? Hearing that same saccharine song on infinite loop…
To both of the above: we can now add to his vast list of incompetencies “world’s worst actor”. It is so transparently obvious that the orange moron is reading a prepared script, and doing so with extreme reluctance – hence the “hostage tone” that others have mentioned. Punctuated with that trademark sniffing that we sometimes hear – but usually don’t: there sure as hell wasn’t any sniffing when he was inciting violence in front of adoring Trumpists earlier on that fateful day. It’s probably a sign of stress.
Anyway, you give the guy a script written by his speechwriters on the urgent advice of his remaining staffers – which may henceforth become known as “the 25th Amendment Avoidance Speech” – and he can’t even read it with any hint of conviction. It comes off like a comedic SNL parody. No one will believe it except Trumpists, who clearly will believe anything.
ETA: And since the orange shit-gibbon has the convictions and attention span of a six-year old, he’ll be back to his normal self within a day or so and start spewing conspiracy theories again. He can’t help himself.
GA lawsuit (Still v Raffensperger) voluntarily dismissed:
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/12/Still-v.-Raffensperger.pdf
According to Democracy Docket, Trump allies are now 1-63
Brian
Wonder what the out-of-court agreement was.
He apparently only made the video after his people warned him that threatening an insurrection could be, you know, a criminal offence:
This is really fascinating-- that there finally was something that got his attention. I didn’t think anything would or could. So apparently he IS afraid of going to jail, this man who has never suffered the consequences of any action that he couldn’t buy or bluff his way out of. But I’m sure he still doesn’t believe he did anything that he SHOULD be held accountable for. He probably sees this as just a bigger bully (the law enforcement mechanism) beating him down. Still wrong, still not fair, but he’s temporarily blocked. No wonder he sounded like a hostage in that video. In his mind he is a hostage.
I assumed as much. The halting, monotonic, sniffing delivery just radiated hypocrisy and coercion, like he despised every word he was being forced to say, which of course he did since it contradicted all his bluster of the previous two days.
I see no reason that this phony display of contemptible hypocrisy peppered with lies should exonerate him from the criminal liability that he so richly deserves. It might ease the political pressures to have him removed before the 20th, but as for his criminality, to use his own words about COVID, “it is what it is”, and he should bear full responsibility for it after he leaves office.
Oh, yeah, it was obviously a “hostage” video. “Read the cards, sir. Every word. Nope, try again.”
He huffed off after, I’m sure.
I wish it was January 20. A humiliating ending.