A poem introducing a chapter of Sir Walter Scott's 1815 novel Guy Mannering sums up the desultory proceedings of the unprecedented second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump better than any contemporary language possibly could:
But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art,
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