Posted on 06/01/2019 12:40:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told California Democrats that Congress would continue aggressive investigations into President Trump and the Trump administration, stopping short of calling for the beginning of an impeachment inquiry.
Addressing the California Democratic Party's annual convention in her home district, Pelosi cited former special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"In his report, special counsel Mueller warned us in the starkest terms that there was an attack on our election and an attack on our democracy," Pelosi said. "Why won't the president defend us from this attack?"
"What is the president covering up?" she asked. "We must investigate the president's welcoming of the assault on our democracy.
A single protester shouting "Impeach!" soon became a few, then a few dozen and then perhaps a hundred as Pelosi seemed to hint at a future inquiry.
"This isn't about politics, it isn't about partisanship, Democrats versus Republicans, no. It's about patriotism, it's about the sanctity of the constitution and it's about the future of our nation. We will go where the facts lead us. We will insist on the truth. We will build an ironclad case to act," Pelosi said.
"President Trump will be held accountable for his actions. In the Congress, in the courts, and in the court of public opinion, we will defend our democracy," she added.
Pelosi and House Democratic leadership have played down talk of impeachment, even as a growing portion of the House Democratic Caucus calls for an inquiry. Pelosi told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday that the party had to be prepared to build a case.
"We have a defiance of the Constitution of the United States, and so when we go down this path, we have to be ready, and it has to be clear to the American people, and we have to hope that it’ll be clear to the Republicans in the United States Senate," she said Thursday, comments she echoed Saturday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who would chair impeachment hearings, said Friday he was conscious of the need to build public support for impeachment.
"Impeachment is a political act, and you cannot impeach a president if the American people will not support it," Nadler told WNYC. "The American people right now do not support it because they do not know the story. They don’t know the facts. We have to get the facts out. We have to hold a series of hearings, we have to hold the investigations."
Fifty House Democrats have called for opening an impeachment inquiry. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is the only Republican who has called for impeachment.
Paper ballots with name and address. Pelosi would not bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
LOL! She promised her followers that Trump would never be President too. How’d that work out for you Nasty?
Wasn’t that what Mulehead spent $30,000,000 failing to do?
Investigate! Investigate! There are charges yet to fabricate!
I have a feeling that the people at that event, like Nancy, live in the rarified air, and rarely come into contact with the lower forms of life. But if you asked her what’s to be done, you can bet it would involve money, and lots of it....OURS, not hers.
Still no specifics. No examples.
Nailed it.
The Dems never really want to get anything resolved unless they have total control as with Obamacare. Otherwise, they’re fine with just running on these issues that fire up the Dem base and feed the pig, decade after decade. Abortion, guns, immigration, free stuff...Trump is just a new addition to the list and one that fires them up better than anything.
Ironclad case eh? No doubt based on the best false evidence money can buy/manufacture.
Why won’t the president defend us from this attack?”
Ask Obama, it was his job back then.
They chose to spy instead of impede
How about spending a million or so of your Mueller fundraising haul to secure DNC servers against Russian attacks?
They’re your Democratic Party computers - Democrat #1.
Silicon Valley south of your district is filled with Democrats and computer experts.
“President Trump will be held accountable for his actions.”
with four more years of work
Democrats are demonstrating that they will no longer accept the result of Presidential elections unless they win. They should understand that when they start that boulder rolling down hill, they will not be able to control the consequences for themselves or the country.
The idiot keep saying “facts”, but they never state any.
To this day, Mueller has never stated what Trump did to warrant his claim that Trump obstructed justice. Not once has Mueller stated any facts; he has only made innuendos.
“I couldn’t agree more. Let’s get this party started.”
I’m all for it. Let’s do this while we’re younger.
There is going to be another shot heard ‘round the world.
just sayin’
ironclad? it damn well better be gold-pressed latinum!!!
Democracy?
How was Trump supposed to defend us from this attack during the election campaign? He wasn't even elected yet!
I believe it was Obama who pooh-poohed the idea of Russia interfering with our elections. He was in power during the election campaign.
So the real question should be, "Why didn't Obama defend us from this election attack by the Russians when he already knew about it?"
Blaming Trump for something that happened before he was an elected official is a red herring.
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