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Pelosi Holds Back Impeachment Article as House Builds Case (here we go again - IMPEACHMENT HELD HOSTAGE - DAY 29)
NY Times ^ | 1/15/21 | Nicholas Fandos

Posted on 01/15/2021 6:16:56 PM PST by Libloather

WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that House impeachment managers were preparing to prosecute President Trump in the Senate, but she refused to offer a timeline for when they would move forward with a never-before-attempted trial of a former president.

At a news conference two days after the House impeached Mr. Trump in a bipartisan vote, Ms. Pelosi made clear that her first priority was ensuring the security of the Capitol and lawmakers before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration on Wednesday.

But growing emotional at times as she recounted seeing the image of a rioter barging through the Capitol in a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt, Ms. Pelosi vowed accountability would soon follow for Mr. Trump, whom the House charged with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in instigating a violent mob that stormed the building. She also pledged to pursue the perpetrators of the rampage as well as far-right lawmakers if they were found to have aided in the assault.

“One week ago, on Jan. 6, there was an act of insurrection perpetrated on the Capitol of the United States, incentivized by the president of the United States,” she said. “One week later, Wednesday to Wednesday, that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the House of Representatives - so urgent was the matter. They are now working on taking this to trial.”

The speaker’s decision to delay sending the article was reminiscent of a similar maneuver a year ago, when she waited almost a month to press charges against Mr. Trump after the House voted to impeach him the first time for pressuring Ukraine to smear Mr. Biden. This time, though, Democrats in both chambers involved in the impeachment case said they expected the delay to be brief.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 1621; hostage; house; impeach; impeachment2; pelosi
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To: Libloather

21 posted on 01/15/2021 6:30:22 PM PST by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: Libloather

So the quick vote was a show of farce.


22 posted on 01/15/2021 6:31:54 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Beware the media industrial complex )
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To: Libloather

Check this out: This will probably get deleted, but this is a question I just asked on Quora to tick off the left lol lol..

“Now that the USA will be a China run communist totalitarian state under Joe Biden thanks to the Democratic party, what are you doing to protect yourself and your family so you do not end up dying in a concentration camp?”

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Now-that-the-USA-will-be-a-China-run-communist-totalitarian-state-under-Joe-Biden-thanks-to-the-Democratic-party-what-are-you-doing-to-protect-yourself-and-your-family-so-you-do-not-end-up-dying-in-a-concentration


23 posted on 01/15/2021 6:32:15 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Libloather

Queen LaWacko will one day face a trial herself and the Judge will reveal every hidden motivation and secret sin she has ever committed. She will not be able to lie or quibble her way out of that day. Think about it, Nan, eternity is a LONG time!


24 posted on 01/15/2021 6:33:07 PM PST by boatbums (Lord, make my life a testimony to the value of knowing you.)
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To: Libloather

....they continue to look like idiots...


25 posted on 01/15/2021 6:39:51 PM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Bayard

Really? You really think that one congress is bound by another?

If it is not executed-served to the Senate by the time the thief is sworn in. Its moot.


26 posted on 01/15/2021 6:40:21 PM PST by crz
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To: Reno89519

It’s that mentality where they pass something and read it later.


27 posted on 01/15/2021 6:40:55 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Libloather

First we have to wait, to find out what the facts are. There’s your excuse PLASTICFACE PSYCHOPATH. NO CHARGE. Thank me when you’re dead. I thinks real rats are smarter than these ‘rats. They’re LOWER IQ.


28 posted on 01/15/2021 6:45:21 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Libloather

Maybe The Petty Vindictive B*TCH Pelosi is having second thoughts, knowing Trump’s legal team absolutely humiliated the grossly incompetent “House Managers” in the first failed impeachment.

But she just said Trump is “so dangerous,” he needed to be removed IMMEDIATELY. Which is it, you STUPID B*TCH?!?


29 posted on 01/15/2021 6:45:55 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: crz

Absolutely Series


30 posted on 01/15/2021 6:48:42 PM PST by Bayard
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; Liz; LS

So you’ve seen those prejudices in the Quora “questions” as well, eh?

Quora was predicting mob violence, rioting and military “responses” to a Capitol “takeover” (by Trump forces unwilling to accept a Biden takeover) as early as May 2020.


31 posted on 01/15/2021 6:50:28 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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To: Libloather

That reminds me...the latest casino slot machine is called fu Nan. Is that a tribute from CHYna or them making a mockery of our “vaunted representative”? It’s hard to say. CCP is smart. Nancy Pelosi...well...

Don’t think about it fu Nan. It’s over your head.


32 posted on 01/15/2021 6:50:59 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Prince of Space

There is pictures out there of her son in law meeting with the “horned shaman” that was standing on her podium


33 posted on 01/15/2021 6:54:43 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Libloather

If they wait until President Trump is Former President and then try to hold an impeachment trial in the Senate, I know of one Former President that knew about spying on US Citizens including a Presidential candidate for the opposition party. Guess he would also need to be impeached!


34 posted on 01/15/2021 6:56:13 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: Libloather

Nancy thinks we or idiots. She can’t send the articles to the Senate until the Senate is in session. That won’t be until the 19th, the day before Biden takes office.


35 posted on 01/15/2021 6:57:01 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Libloather
"there was an act of insurrection"

Orwell predicted a world where words had their meanings shifted by the powerful. Insurrection is defined as "an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government" but no matter how much spin the Democrats try to apply it really doesn't make any sense to say that the pro-Trump protestors were trying to revolt or rebel against the present government and its President, Donald J. Trump.

It isn't really possible to revolt against a future government. Barging into the Capital building to support the present government, and even to attempt to influence the process of establishing the next government isn't an "insurrection". It may have been dumb, illegal, and not at all helpful, but calling the event an "insurrection" or a "siege" is simply incorrect.

Were Ms. Pelosi's definition correct then the people who barged into the Kavanaugh hearings in 2018 we also committing an act of insurrection, as were the Senators and others who supported them.

36 posted on 01/15/2021 6:57:59 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: Libloather

But they’re doing it “solemnly and prayerfully”.
*SNORT*


37 posted on 01/15/2021 6:58:31 PM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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To: Libloather

I don’t know where the dems are holding it but I know where they can stick it.


38 posted on 01/15/2021 7:00:05 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Bayard

“What happens if they hold it for 4 years and Trump gets elected?”

It would be a different congress and not enforceable for one thing.


39 posted on 01/15/2021 7:03:00 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Libloather

She’ll be on tv immediately after the coronation of Sleepy Joe announcing, that for the good of the country she is dropping impeachment proceedings and that we should now all be united.


40 posted on 01/15/2021 7:03:23 PM PST by The Louiswu (Dylan is right once more...”The times, they are a changing”)
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