Agreed, except I don't think they have any hope of Trump folding.  I think they are hoping for his assassination and attempting to incite a populist uprising.  They know they can hire rioters as long as the conditions look believable they can fake it.  If there is a populist uprising, fake or not then they hope to manipulate players to come over to their side and then vote to impeach.  If they can make trump look weak, and like he really is going to lose, then congressmen will defect from Trump and join against him for their own survival.