Here’s my view on why Trump says he wants a trial in the Senate. He doesn’t. What he’s doing is trolling Pelosi and Schiff by making clear that Schiff will be called and the phony whistleblower will be called and the Bidens will be called and the whole coup will be exposed under oath and on national tv. He’s banking on not having to go by letting them know that if they impeach it will be scorched earth against them with the Republicans in charge. They can’t want that under any scenario. It would expose them and destroy what’s left, no pun intended, of the Democratic Party.

Trump is playing them and not the other way around.