Posted on 06/07/2019 10:38:52 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly told her caucus leaders Tuesday evening that she wants to see President Donald Trump in prison — but that she does not want to undertake impeachment proceedings against him right now.
Politico reported Wednesday evening that “multiple Democratic sources familiar with” a meeting between Pelosi and several party leaders quoted her as telling them: “I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison.”
Pelosi reportedly pushed back against pressure from House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who has pressed the speaker to approve the start of impeachment proceedings. According to Politico, Pelosi prefers to take a different approach: defeat Trump in the 2020 presidential election, and then prosecute him and send him to prison. (Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed last month in a public statement that a sitting president cannot be indicted.)
Politico said that Pelosi was “expressing solidarity with pro-impeachment Democrats who want to hold the president accountable while disputing the idea that it is now time to take that step. Pelosi has long argued that certain conditions must be met before Democrats begin impeachment — public support and strong bipartisan backing, neither of which have so far materialized.” Only about one in three Americans favor impeaching Trump, according to recent polls.
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Damn straight... :^)
Oh, she’s on the List too.
I just rattled off a few ...
Pelosi knows that impeachment is a loser for her side. She just spouts the words imprisonment to appease her left wing crazy base. She fears the real speaker of the house which by de facto is Ocasio Cortez. I find it amusing.
Oddly Ocasio is a creation of the media. Without the media she is nothing. That really pisses of Pelosi. Pelosi is not left wing enough for the media today. She is political dead meat. Pelosi will win her next election if she runs. She will not be the next speaker of the house.
Kind of ironic that she thinks he belongs in prison but doesn’t want to impeach.....
True. So true.
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