When the articles of impeachment were introduced, Trump reacted at different points with a familiar refrain. “I’ll just sue Congress,” he told his top advisers in the Oval Office. “They can’t do this to me.” He believed, he said, that if Pelosi didn’t send the articles to the Senate after he was impeached—she held on to them for no clear reason for several days—he could “go straight to the Supreme Court.” “They’ll dismiss the case,” he said. White House aides explained to him that this wasn’t an actual trial, and that it was beyond his control. He was forced to wait.
