President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) informed him in a private meeting that Democrats did not intend to impeach him.
“So I think it’s very hard to impeach somebody who has done a great job, that’s number one,” Trump said from the Rose Garden Friday. “And we even talked about that today. I said, ‘Why don’t you use this for impeachment?’ And Nancy said, ‘We’re not looking to impeach you.’ I said, ‘That’s good, Nancy, that’s good.’ But you don’t impeach people when they’re doing a good job. And you don’t impeach people when there was no collusion because there was no collusion.”
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The comments could prove to be troublesome for Pelosi, who was just elected speaker of a Democratic caucus with many freshman members who campaigned on impeaching Trump. More senior members, like Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), have maintained that it’s too early to discuss the possibility of impeachment.
