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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:14 AM Jan 2019

Pelosi puts tight grip on talk of Trump impeachment

BY MIKE LILLIS - 01/29/19 08:32 PM EST

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is keeping her troops in line on one of the most divisive issues facing Democrats internally and the country more broadly: the impeachment of President Trump.

As the minority leader over the past two years, Pelosi faced a small but intensifying push from rank-and-file Democrats to oust the president — a movement that won two floor votes in the last Congress and the support of 66 House Democrats in early 2018.

Yet in the weeks since taking the Speaker’s gavel, Pelosi has tamped down the impeachment talk in her ranks, according to multiple lawmakers, arguing it is important to allow special counsel Robert Mueller to wrap up his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election.

The effort is paying dividends, winning over even the most liberal Trump critics in the caucus while dissuading new acolytes to the impeachment effort, which has struggled to find a foothold in the new Congress.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/427577-pelosi-puts-tight-grip-on-talk-of-trump-impeachment

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Pelosi puts tight grip on talk of Trump impeachment (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP

Hmmmm, not sure if this bodes well Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #1

Moving before Mueller's report is in would be a horrible idea Recursion Jan 2019 #2

AGREE!!!! bluestarone Jan 2019 #5

Yes. Let's see what's in the report first. Buckeyeblue Jan 2019 #6

Here we fucking go again! That criminal has done PLENTY besides what Mueller is investigating to DontBooVote Jan 2019 #3

It's a political decision and it's the right one marylandblue Jan 2019 #8

That's right. Turbineguy Jan 2019 #4

We don't have to suggest impeachment. Mueller's report will demand it. NightWatcher Jan 2019 #7

Farmer-Rick

(10,242 posts)

1. Hmmmm, not sure if this bodes well

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:23 AM

Jan 2019

We'll see.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. Moving before Mueller's report is in would be a horrible idea

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:24 AM

Jan 2019

See what he finds first.

bluestarone

(17,128 posts)

5. AGREE!!!!

Reply to Recursion (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:36 AM

Jan 2019

Buckeyeblue

(5,505 posts)

6. Yes. Let's see what's in the report first.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:41 AM

Jan 2019

Besides, I don't know that McConnell will move to hold a trial if the House votes to impeach. There is nothing in the constitution that sets forth a mandated time frame for a trial to commence after articles of impeachment are passed.

With that in mind, we have to have the strongest case possible. Because, if McConnell refuses to have a trial, the members of the House need to appeal to the public to put pressure on the Senate to hold a trial.

DontBooVote

(901 posts)

3. Here we fucking go again! That criminal has done PLENTY besides what Mueller is investigating to

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:34 AM

Jan 2019

get himself impeached. He breaks laws every fucking day right in front of the world! Besides that, he has proven himself unfit time and time again!

Now I wait for the day when Mueller's report details his and his henchmen's crimes and I bet there still will not be an impeachment. I just do not get it why we can't hold him, and them, responsible.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

8. It's a political decision and it's the right one

Reply to DontBooVote (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:58 AM

Jan 2019

The only hope for getting Republicans on board is a report so damning that he has no defenders left.

Turbineguy

(37,420 posts)

4. That's right.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:35 AM

Jan 2019

The Mueller report will tell. Also, we need to get McConnell in the corner with his Russian buddies.

Some republicans must be capable of figuring out that putting traitors in control of their party may not turn out too well.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

7. We don't have to suggest impeachment. Mueller's report will demand it.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:57 AM

Jan 2019

I personally think things will move faster than an impeachment vote and trial when everything comes to light. He'll be run out of town within hours of its release.

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