The Republicans are adamant that the House didn't do its job, and that the investigation into TrumPutin and Ukraine is an attempt to steal the 2016, or the 2020 election, or both.

Of course, they forget that the 2016 election was already stolen, the Electoral College already taking the election out of the hands of the voters and giving it over to a handful of states where the Orange One used the slimmest of popular votes to take all electoral votes.

Now, that is the right way to steal an election, and more constitutional, according to them, than having to have the Supreme Court validate a dodgy outcome. 

Besides, they can use the Senate non-trial to illustrate how an effective quid pro quo really works: their votes to acquit a guilty leader in exchange for his stupid acquiescence to deregulation, travel bans, fine people in white nationalist thuggeries, drilling rights in the Arctic, fracking in North Dakota, Christian sharia ala Pence, etc. etc. etc. 

All TrumPutin has to do is wander around the country, inciting hate at his rallies, and let the Senate do its legislative work, making the world safe for autocrats, oligarchs, tax evaders, defense and wall contractors, and, of course, nepotism.

Make America Whatever, on a red hat.