it's really very simple - Mitch McConnell can ignore the senate rules and refuse to hold a senate impeachment trial (Tom Fitton saying this too) The way Tom Fitton puts it, Mitch McConnell can chose to ignore the senate's own rules and essentially do the higher thing which is to defend the constitution and the integrity of the office of the presidency from this all out attack upon the office in order to bring down the man occupying the office. As Tom puts it - "the rules are not a suicide pact" It's basically a nuclear option and something that should only be exercised in very extraordinary situations - and well, here we are - in very extraordinary situation where the House Democrats are burning the constitution to ashes as they are going all out to contrive any pretext whatsoever to impeach President Trump. But the constitution sets the high bar that the grounds for impeachment must be high crimes and misdemeanors or treason. These contrived "whistle-blower" complaints are an infinity removed from that bar. And now they keep spinning up new whistle-blowers as one fucked up and so they go at with yet another - "oh this one has first hand knowledge...blah, blah, blah" It's all complete bullshit and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell needs to step up to this situation and call them on their bullshit - as in "the bullshit stops here" kind of stance. Start putting this out now on all social media - lets make sure Mitch is reminded of Tom Fitton's highly excellent advice - just go tell the House Democrats to pound sand if they try to bring an impeachment to the senate for trial Remember: these are two separate chambers of Congress - the House holds no hammer over the senate - they have no power over McConnell. The Dems are the minority in the senate - they have no power over McConnell in the senate. If McConnell rebuffs any impeachment from the House all they can do is go sue his senatorial leadership action in federal court. So people think it sets a bad precedent (ignoring senate rules)? Well, think about all the VERY bad precedents the House Democrats have now set. The whole matter now has become a fundamental matter of defending the constitution and to keep constitution shredders from wrecking further destruction of our form of govt. Proceeding with an impeachment trial of a president on a  basis of House Democrat corruption is shredding our constitution and our form of govt. Mitch McConnell should refuse to allow the senate to play into their game of treasonous sedition