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Good to know. What I want to know is, who will stop him? If Congress impeaches, will the Senate ever move to convict him? His MO is to push everything to the limit and beyond, so even if they do, what's to stop him from ordering the military to attack Congress?

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No, the Senate will never convict.

Using the military to attack Congress is unlikely. What's stopping him is that the military itself believes pretty firmly in the Constitution. He has control over a lot of top leaders, but there are a lot of intermediate levels that will reject it. That itself might lead to a conviction.

However, he has a ton of other tools at his disposal: ICE, national guard, a bunch of governors, etc. A lot can happen, and it is not clear what the responses would be.

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