It's Been 3 Weeks! Nancy Pelosi Continues Withholding Articles Of Impeachment From Senate

The Federalist ^ | 01/08/2020 | Tristan Justice

[SeekAndFind]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats behind closed doors Tuesday that the she would continue to hold the passed articles of impeachment back from the upper chamber until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered details on how a trial will be conducted.

Pelosi’s comments as reported by the Washington Post showcase the Democrats’ latest power grab to bend the impeachment proceedings in the Senate to their will demanding the testimony of new witnesses.

After the House passed two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power and one for obstruction of Congress by an almost uniform partisan vote, Pelosi announced she would be withholding the articles from moving forward to the Senate.

Pelosi’s decision to bring a halt to the impeachment process comes as Democrats aim to amp up pressure on Republicans to conduct the trial in the Senate on the Democrats’ terms even after operating an unfair process rushed in the House.

The impeachment proceedings lodged against President Donald Trump were kicked off by an anonymous whistleblower complaint alleging Trump conspired with the Ukrainian president to interfere in the next U.S. presidential election. The complaint, marked credible and urgent by the intelligence community inspector general but not by the Department of National Intelligence sparked rampant speculation by impeachment-hungry Democrats and the mainstream media as a smoking gun to end the Trump presidency.

Soon after knowledge of the complaint surfaced in the media however, the White House declassified and released an unredacted transcript of the July 25 phone call in question under the complaint between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats have tried incessantly to paint the call as damning evidence illustrating that Trump invited Ukraine to get involved in the next election by investigating the Biden family in exchange for nearly $400 million in military aid. The withheld aid was ultimately released without a Ukrainian investigation.

In reality, a true and honest reading of the transcript exposes an American president urging the Ukrainian leader to root out corruption in the eastern European nation and requesting that Zelensky investigate the origins of Ukraine’s peddling of the Russian collusion hoax in the United States.

In more than two months of rushed proceedings, Democrats failed to unearth evidence worth of a “high crime and misdemeanor,” that warrants the extreme measure of impeachment despite the entire process run in the lower chamber being slanted to disadvantage Republicans. To the contrary, the Democrats’ own witnesses exonerated Trump of any wrongdoing regarding Ukraine.

Democrats impeached the president anyway, and now Democrats are demanding the Senate call additional witnesses to prolong the process and find the incriminating evidence to oust Trump from the Oval Office. Incriminating evidence will be hard to find however, as the House hearings exposed to the public, there isn’t any.

Pelosi’s present play to prohibit the process from moving onward has further undercut the entire premise of a rushed procedure in the House, which sought to remove the president from office as quick as possible citing Trump’s hold on power as an urgent threat to the survival of the republic.

McConnell has made clear his desire for a fair and quick trial in the Senate and has pushed back on Democratic demands to call more witnesses to prolong a process that has been a sham from the start launched in a desperate effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election.

Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham proposed changing the Senate rules regarding impeachment altogether to remove Pelosi from the process and begin the trial proceedings without the House speaker’s approval.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, joined by a dozen Republican senators has proposed dismissing the impeachment trial altogether.

[I want the USA back]

It was planned from the start. NO WAY do they want to see the headlines: “Trump acquitted!”
In fact, they will go through the bull$hit again, using Trump’s killing of the iranian worm as grounds.

[goldstategop]

The morons have four more years to get it right. Nothing has worked for them so far.

[A_perfect_lady]

I’d like to know what’s happening with the Hawley bill about dismissing the impeachment if the articles aren’t handed over in 25 days. They floated it, are they going to vote on it, or what?

[SeekAndFind]

Yes, me too. I’m wondering about that. The bill had 6 co-sponsors as I remember. Ted Cruz was a co-sponsor.

[goldstategop]

Probably before the weekend. Once the rules are adopted, the next move is up to the House.

[minnesota_bound]

Nancy Pelosi would not even take a phone call from VP Pence about the missile attack!!!

[RummyChick]

IF you want to see a live stream of a terrorist getting blown up while his buddies are recording him

https://twitter.com/AndileGula_/status/1214832680489095168

watch the guys face as he sees the vehicle get hit

[RummyChick]

IF you want to see a live stream of a terrorist getting blown up while his buddies are recording him

https://twitter.com/AndileGula_/status/1214832680489095168

watch the guys face as he sees the vehicle get hit

[RummyChick]

IF you want to see a live stream of a terrorist getting blown up while his buddies are recording him

https://twitter.com/AndileGula_/status/1214832680489095168

watch the guys face as he sees the vehicle get hit

[commish]

She is never going to turn them over. That has been the plan all along. They don’t want him cleared by the Senate, they want to have this hanging over him in an erroneous thought it will hurt him.

[goldstategop]

The War Powers Act vote is now meaningless.

[goldstategop]

The Senate can dismiss them with prejudice and vote to acquit the President.

Cocaine Mitch doesn’t need Nancy’s concurrence to do it.

[PerConPat]

The articles of impeachment are, as Honest Abe once quipped, as thin as the soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death. So Peelooosey continues to wait for a DC court ruling in hopes of getting at Mueller dirt and McGahn testimony for use in the trial- as well as for Murkowski, Collins, Mittens etc. to grow more squishy.

Her plotting will come to naught. But the smaller, the more vindictive she becomes, the better for the GOP.

[DoughtyOne]

We need to put Nancy’s face on milk cartons.

Have you seen the speaker of the House. She’s missing in action on the Impeachment Front.

[DoughtyOne]

Constitutional operators will be standing by for tips.

Call: 800 555 7734

[Phlap]

It is the job of the house to impeach. They have done that. Now, based on the evidence gathered by the House, it is the job of the Senate to convict or acquit. AAR, IMHO, Mitch should wait for the articles to arrive and then set the rules or as in this case where the charges are so weak, simply present a motion to dismiss. But what do I know?

[catnipman]

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats behind closed doors Tuesday that the she would continue to hold the passed articles of impeachment back from the upper chamber until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered details on how a trial will be conducted.”

Nancy, yesterday, Mitch McConnell just told the whole world EXACTLY what the rules of a Senate trial are going to be, namely, Mitch said he had the votes to institute the 1999 Clinton impeachment trial rules, so your hold-back excuse is no longer exists ... you’ll have to come up with a new one ...

btw, i know hundreds of FReepers are going wild here demanding a trial, but it’s greatly to the benefit of the GOP to never hold a trial for several reasons:

1. This impeachment could always be proclaimed as the “impeachment that never was”

2. It utterly guts the Democrat rationale for such a hurried impeachment or even the need for any impeachment at all

3. “The impeachment that never was” will REALLY, REALLY, REALLY torque off the die-hard leftist Democrat base

4. But most importantly of all is that there are some vulnerable Senators in blue and purple states, such as Cory Gardner and Martha McSally who we absolutely MUST keep to avoid flipping the Senate to the Democrats, and avoiding a vote on impeachment can greatly help such Senate candidates ...

[b4its2late]

And they were on vacation for 2 out of the 3!

[commish]

The Senate can dismiss them with prejudice and vote to acquit the President. Cocaine Mitch doesn’t need Nancy’s concurrence to do it.

Only if the articles are submitted to the Senate.

The House must submit them along with the names of the House Members that will present them. Until that happens the Senate can do nothing.

Until that happens Trump also has not Officially been impeached. All that has happened is articles of Impeachment have been approved, until the articles are delivered to the Senate there is no Impeachment.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

She will never submit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate unless she is forced to legally. She has accomplished the harm to Trump’s reputation that she intended. She knows to go farther is a loser. Her best bet is to do nothing now. Her total intent was to tarnish Trump’s reputation. She had done that.