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Graham: ‘Political suicide’ for Pelosi to try to impeach Trump
The New York Post ^ | May 26, 2019 | Mark Moore

Posted on 05/26/2019 1:09:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Lindsey Graham said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would be committing “political suicide” if she tries to impeach President Trump.

“Her job is very much at risk,” the South Carolina Republican told “Fox News Sunday.” “Nancy Pelosi is riding a bucking, wild bronco called the Democratic caucus.”

He noted that 70 percent of the Democratic base backs beginning impeachment hearings against Trump.

“She knows that impeachment would be political suicide because there’s no reason to impeach the president. So she’s trying to keep the party intact. If she goes down the impeachment road, Republicans take back the House, we keep the Senate, President Trump gets reelected,” Graham said.

The bitter feud between Pelosi and Trump spilled out in public view last week after both questioned each other’s mental fitness, with Pelosi urging his family and staff to stage an “intervention” and the president shooting back to say she has “lost it.”

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: graham; impeachment; pelosi; trump
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1 posted on 05/26/2019 1:09:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Poor Nutzi.

She’s going to crash and burn worse than Franken.


2 posted on 05/26/2019 1:11:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pelosi is so decrepit - she’s old but not that old; however, she’s not aging well- that I don’t think she even has a future, so I doubt that she cares. She’ll go for this with her last breath.


3 posted on 05/26/2019 1:15:40 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Does the House Speaker have to be an elected representative?
I had heard the office does not require that. If so, the Democrats should replace Nancy with Buttplug, and the liberals could rally ‘round the fag.


4 posted on 05/26/2019 1:22:22 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: livius
She’ll go for this with her last breath.


5 posted on 05/26/2019 1:27:30 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; Califreak; ColdOne; ...
Lindsey

Graham

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6 posted on 05/26/2019 1:29:02 PM PDT by upchuck (No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems to me, Pelosi’s been on a mission to destroy the democrat party for a long, long time now.


7 posted on 05/26/2019 1:29:48 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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“She knows that impeachment would be political suicide because there’s no reason to impeach the president. So she’s trying to keep the party intact. If she goes down the impeachment road, Republicans take back the House, we keep the Senate, President Trump gets reelected,” Graham said.

I think that Graham needs to take a lesson from PDJT when he rather slyly encouraged Pelosi as speaker and voila… it happened. A little bit of reverse psychology style baiting might be good as in “well, we’re quite skeered in the Republican Party about the possibility of impeachment…. Prolly would mean that the DemonRats would keep the house and we lose BOTH the Senate and Presidency. God help us if they go down that impeachment road!”

8 posted on 05/26/2019 1:36:07 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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The impeachment, if predicated on the Russian hoax, will become a battle royal between the DOJ and the house with the DOJ ultimately winning. Any so called evidence brought forth by the house will be totally discredited by declassification. The truth will prevail and the house impeachment effort will crash and burn. If there has to be a fight, ironically, this is a fight that The President wants.


9 posted on 05/26/2019 1:37:12 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: McCarthysGhost
IT'S
A TRAP - YouTube

"It's an Impeachment Trap!"

10 posted on 05/26/2019 1:40:11 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Declassification Directive Gives Pelosi, Schumer and Small Group Few Options…

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When President Trump announced the futility of attempting an infrastructure bill with Pelosi and Schumer as they simultaneously tried to impeach him, the president certainly knew he was going to issue a declassification memo within hours.

The declassification directive to AG Bill Barr creates a dynamic ensuring Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will align with the former intelligence officials and further attack the offices of the President and Attorney General; they have few options.

Those who participated in the creation of Russia-Gate or Spy-Gate have few options except to manufacture a narrative shield and accuse the President of unethical, immoral and criminal conduct.  See: Pelosi’ recent “cover-up” charge.

By advancing even stronger attacks against the president, the ‘small group’ position any investigation into their wrong-doing as political retaliation.  Their best defense is to build a deeper foundation for their political retaliation claim.  Therefore a House impeachment investigation, in some manner or form, is more likely than ever.

The legal risk for participants in ‘Russia-Gate’/’Spy-Gate’ seems very real.  The best defense against that risk is political.  Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer know how to lead the defense by saying any evidence discovered by AG Barr is merely weaponized retaliation from the Trump DOJ.  The media are already supporting that cause.

Speaker Pelosi needs to protect John Brennan, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and the participating small group writ large, if she is to retain her gavel and power.  Minority leader Chuck Schumer knows the play; and the media are already fully circling the wagons as part of their three-year ongoing participation.

As this stage in the sunlight process; and with a mountain of visible evidence locked-in to the record of what took place; there is no evidence anyone inside the Washington Field Office of the FBI was not a participant.

There may be decent “rank-and-file” FBI agents in various positions throughout the country, but there is no honorable “rank-and-file” in the Washington DC Field Office.  The entire apparatus is full of corrupt investigators, manipulative liars, participating schemers, and agents/officials who went along with three years of politically motivated investigations; there’s no recovery from the scale of their involvement.

Interestingly the FBI alignment with Pelosi and Schumer is now similar to the FBI alignment with Feinstein and Harris in the Blasey-Ford fraud (Brett Kavanaugh hearings/fiasco).  The weaponization of the FBI around Washington DC is a feature, not a flaw; nothing is a surprise now.

Careerists within the intelligence apparatus (CIA, FBI, DOJ etc.) will continue to fall in line with the political objectives of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer because it is in their own best interests.   Schumer and Pelosi will defend the former corruption because they have no political option to retain power; this is their ideological crew.

 

11 posted on 05/26/2019 1:45:48 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not doing what 99.999999% of your base wants is “political suicide”, Democrats unlike Republicans are used to their views being well represented in D.C., even when they are insane.


12 posted on 05/26/2019 1:48:34 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump needs to do whatever he needs to do. Remember, the winners get to write the history.


13 posted on 05/26/2019 2:17:51 PM PDT by myerson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re already impeaching him with their current “investigations” ; they just aren’t doing it officially. We all criticize Pelosi, and she deserves our scorn, but what would happen if they dumped her, and chose a REAL hot-headed, even MORE radical Speaker? Pelosi knows that to officially impeach Trump would hand him the election, UNLESS the hearings weren’t televised, and the fake news media had an opportunity to tell whatever lies they wanted, even WORSE than they do, now. But televised hearings are showing democrats for the left wing nuts that they really are.


14 posted on 05/26/2019 2:22:56 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Steely Tom

Worst 3rd line of succession ever.


15 posted on 05/26/2019 2:27:12 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Rats really painted themselves in a corner with this one. If they don't impeach then they tick off their base and every Rat who voted against impeachment gets successfully primaried. If they do impeach then they automatically alienate a large majority of the voting public while simultaneously firing up the Trump base.

They're so screwed, and San Fran Nan knows it.

16 posted on 05/26/2019 3:21:27 PM PDT by Thilly Thailor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish Lindsey Graham would shut up and let the democrats try it. He keeps warning them instead of letting them dig their hole.


17 posted on 05/26/2019 3:21:30 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: bagster

Thanks for the Moby Dick! But I honestly think Pelosi is more calculating and pragmatic than Captain Ahab.

Now John McShame. That definitely was a Captain Ahab zealot.


18 posted on 05/26/2019 4:23:08 PM PDT by poconopundit
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To: upchuck

At least SOMEBODY is standing for our President. Lots of freaking crickets from our spineless Party.


19 posted on 05/26/2019 6:12:27 PM PDT by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I truly hope that Senator Graham stops saying these things (although he is 100% CORRECT), as I want Pelosi, Schumer & all of the rest of the MORON LEFTISTS of the DIMocRATS Party to IMPEACH our good President & then HUMILIATINGLY FAIL in this senseless crusade & ATTEMPTED COUP.
(I estimate if they DO impeach the POTUS that we can win about 40 States, recapture the HoR, increase the GOP membership in the US Senate & RUIN the DIMocRATS for a generation in the General Election of 2020.)

Yours, TMN78247


20 posted on 05/26/2019 11:00:16 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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