Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that she wouldn’t decide one way or another on beginning impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump until special counsel Robert Mueller finishes his investigation.
She agreed that impeachment would be a “sad and divisive” thing for the country and added that “we shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.”
Later on Thursday, Democrats will retake the House majority, endowing them with the power to pass articles of impeachment. However, the GOP still enjoys a majority in the Senate, making it unlikely that Trump would be convicted and booted from office.
Pelosi also said that current DOJ precedent that a sitting President cannot be indicted should be an “open discussion in terms of the law.”
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Let the bashing of Pelosi commence that she will ‘wait and see’ for impeachment and…reasons.
“We have to wait and see what happens with the Mueller report,” Pelosi said. “We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.”
Hitting the ground running, Madame Speaker…
This should get his tiny fingers a-Tweetin’…
Not only is Pelosi correct on the law, but it is effective positioning against Trump. Trump has been scared s***less since the Dems won the House. If you go back to early Nov, the number of meltdowns followed by the number of moves made by Mueller have brought him to a breaking point. It’s just that the GOP doesn’t see it or does see it but is politically paralyzed to do anything about it (because they fear losing the votes of racists whom they need to get over the top in key battlegrounds like Florida).
I expect Robert Mueller to feel less burdened now that Nancy has the gavel. I think we’ll see him accelerate his moves and go more directly at the big players and the big crimes. He can’t be stopped now.
I also think that Trump will fold to Nancy on a number of issues because impeachment starts in the House. His fear of impeachment and the liability that awaits out of office will drive him to cut some deals: First with her, and then the Special Counsel.
As indicated in the article, " Pelosi also said that current DOJ precedent that a sitting President cannot be indicted should be an ‘open discussion in terms of the law.’”
I’d really like to see a multi-multi-count detailed indictment. Made public. Test it in the courts if necessary and if he doesn’t resign. I think it would be more effective and less politically damaging for Democrats. And if it didn’t get upheld by the courts, the evidence would be out there to make impeachment less political and more effective.
The “bombs” are the wrong shape and color.