Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has said the Democrats’ impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is “politicizing” a serious government institution. He called the current impeachment trial an “unserious process” that isn’t being presided over by a Supreme Court justice, setting a precedent for Republicans to use the same stunt for their own political gain. “What the democrats have successfully done is politicized yet another Washington D.C. institution and it will damage our democracy by politicizing the process once again,” Grenell told The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program on Tuesday. Grenell said that House and Senate Democrats have moved impeachment—a fundamental constitutional power of Congress meant to provide checks and balances on power—from a “serious process into just a political weapon.” “And they should not be surprised in the future when it is used by Republicans as exactly that: a political weapon,” he said. Grenell, who was the first openly …