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They won't send him to prison. (Impeachment conviction does not implicitly carry prison sentence.) They know that sending him to prison will only make him a martyr.

Their plan is likely to have Xiden pardon Trump as an act of mercy, to "unify the country."

Given the rhetoric against Trump over the past 5 years, it will be lauded as a moment of grace and restraint by the Establishment, while forcing Trump to live out his life as a social pariah and under public ridicule. (Gives them infinite opportunities to pile on, every time he is seen in public.)

Prison would deprive them of the opportunity to torture him in front of the world.