Sounds like the BBC people don't do their research either. They just repeat the Democrat talking points and the Democrats are trying to frighten the people by telling outright lies. Our Constitution is only 34 pages long including all the amendments. It's only 17 as originally written!!! They would have had to only read to the middle of page 3 to get the actual law. I'm pretty sure if you want to read it yourself, you'll find it on line. The quote below is from Article I, Section 3.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States;
Seems pretty clear to me. I don't understand the confusion. If the presidency is not an Office of honor, Trust or Profit then I guess they're correct. Or maybe they didn't keep reading past "removal from Office".
The Senate will vote on Wednesday. There will not be a 2/3 majority vote to impeach and so Trump will be acquitted. That will not stop the Democrats or the press for a single second. They've already started with "if there were no witnesses, it wasn't fair". (I already commented earlier on the 17 witnesses they called in the house and why they didn't subpoena others.) They knew when they brought the bogus charges in the House, that the Senate would never convict so why did they spend all this political capital and waste months doing nothing else? Their goal is to affect the next election and so smear Trump that independents won't vote for him. They've spent the last three years accusing Trump of meddling in the 2016 election and yet it was Hillary Clinton who bought the opposition research (Steel Dossier) that was fed to the FBI that set in motion the initial FISA warrant to investigate members of the Trump campaign. I guess conducting a bogus impeachment on made up charges and going on cable TV day after day ad nauseum to lie about Trump isn't election tampering. To paraphrase President Bill Clinton, "I guess it depends on what your definition of the word is, is". The Democrats completely lost their minds when Trump was elected.
The Dems are also pushing to abolish the Electoral College. For those who don't know what that is, I'll try to explain. The first surprise is that the US isn't a democracy. It is a republic and in a republic, the voters elect electors and the electors elect the president. Each state is allotted a number of electors based on the number of residents they have as well as the number of representatives they have in the House and the Senate. This has the effect of smoothing out the very high concentrations of people in the big city congressional districts across the population of the entire state. To see how this worked, go online and look at a map of congressional districts voting in 2016. The Democrat districts are blue and the Republican districts are red. All the blue is concentrated in the big cities on both coasts but the rest of the country is red. This shows that liberals congregate in big cities but the rest of the country is pretty moderate and these days, the Republications are the voice of reason (moderation) rather than the Democrats. This was added to the constitution to appease five lower population states who felt that they would simply be overwhelmed by the big cities of the coast and they refused to join the union without the provision.