The senator from Kentucky’s “Fire Fauci” crusade is a crude scheme to exploit fears and raise campaign cash, and Dr. Anthony Fauci called him out on it.
They’re in a politically perilous position: If they defend Trump, they alienate the majority of voters; if they vote to convict, they alienate their own base.
Rand Paul tried to take away the president’s blank check for endless war, but a number of Democrats joined most Republicans in a Senate vote that let Trump keep it.