I hope he goes through with it, then gets dragged for abuse of power. But that's not likely to happen; the president has too much power, and there are no checks and balances in place. He is only still in power because his party voted to keep him in a sham 'trial', and they only voted in favor because else their party would look divided.
It's remarkable that Trump has consistently been against free-speech but still has the support of a non-trivial number of self-described "libertarians" like Thiel. This is in the 1st amendment sense as saying he wants to open up libel laws in 2016 [0] to his comments on video games [1] and flag burning [2] to in the broader sense in his anger at the kneeling protesters [3].
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/26/do...
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-tru...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/15/no-braine...
[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-nfl...