***BREAKING NEWS*** After this article was completed, on January 17, the defense team of President Trump filed their initial legal brief on January 18, to refute the fraudulent impeachment articles submitted by House Democrats to the Senate, for trial.  In this submission, his attorneys confirm the message of this article, that impeachment has become one of the leading strategies for the Democrats in the 2020 presidential election.

In their answer, they refute the charge that President Trump committed impeachable acts.  They correctly describe the articles of impeachment as "a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president," calling the impeachment "a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election." 

President Trump's briefing to the American people on January 8 to defend his decision to order the killing of Iran's military leader Qasem Soleimani offered a glimpse into an ongoing internal battle over strategic policy within his administration.  Trump asserted that he had made the right decision, based on intelligence that said an attack against Americans orchestrated by Soleimani was "imminent", therefore it was necessary to act immediately.

The frenzied dash by House Democrats to pass two articles of impeachment against President Trump demonstrates that its sponsors were fully aware of the weakness of their case, and also were fearful that allowing a full cross examination by Republicans of the witnesses who testified against him would reveal that there is no evidence to back the charges. At the same time, it further exposed the sense of urgency, among those behind the coup plot against him, to block his efforts to overturn the dangerous bipartisan geopolitical commitment to regime change and endless wars pursued by both Bush presidencies, Obama, and Hillary Clinton.  Trump's insistence on engaging in peaceful collaborative efforts with Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, which are bearing fruit, is correctly seen by the anti-Trumpers as a threat to their collapsing unipolar geopolitical system.

The vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on December 18, in favor of two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, has virtually no chance of succeeding in his removal.  To oust him requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate, which will almost certainly not happen, as Republicans hold the majority there and remain firmly in support of the President.  Further, the two articles, one for "abuse of power" and the other for "obstruction of Congress", were not proven, despite weeks of hearings in which the testimony of anti-Trump officials was largely unchallenged, as the Democrats in control of the process established rules which severely limited the ability of Trump's allies to present a defense.  However, even with the limitations placed on them, Republican Congressmen poked huge holes through the farcical claims the Democrats raised against him.