House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told her Democratic colleagues that President Trump “wants to be impeached” in order to be vindicated by the Senate, according to ABC News.
Pelosi made the suggestion during a Thursday morning meeting according to two Democratic aides, who said that Pelosi also called Trump’s actions “villainous.”
The aide said that Pelosi was implying that she will stick to her current plan to keep investigating the president and his administration without jumping to impeachment, but Pelosi didn’t explicitly say that in her remarks. -ABC News
Pelosi’s comments come one day after she and President Trump traded barbs after a contentious White House meeting in which Trump effectively said that Democrats’ efforts to continue investigating him were getting in the way of bipartisan negotiations over infrastructure spending.
Pelosi claimed that Trump had engaged in a “cover-up” in regards to the administration’s efforts to prevent former White House Counsel Don McGahn from testifying Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee.
JUST IN: Speaker Pelosi says "we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up" by stonewalling testimony for ongoing congressional investigations. pic.twitter.com/7ILMb95vZM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 22, 2019
Trump responded, an impromptu speech from the Rose Garden where he said: “I don’t do cover-ups,” adding “I walked into the room and I told Sen. Schumer, Speaker Pelosi: I want to do infrastructure, I want to do it more than you want to do it… But you know what, you can’t do it under these circumstances.”
Trump says he told Pelosi and Schumer that he won't work on an infrastructure deal until they stop investigating him pic.twitter.com/pqoaqPKxXM
— Axios (@axios) May 22, 2019
McGahn skipped out on a Wednesday hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee after the Justice Department granted him immunity from complying with a Subpoena issued by the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
As Democrats weigh their options, Trump is almost taunting them by testing the bounds of executive power in ways few other administrations have. The White House contends that even former employees like McGahn do not have to abide by subpoenas from Congress.
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Trump’s former White House counsel is the most-cited witness in Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation report, recounting the president’s attempts to interfere with the probe. And that makes his silence all the more infuriating for Democrats. -AP
Meanwhile, 32 members of the House Democratic caucus have so far supported measures to open an impeachment inquiry against Trump, many of whom voiced support just this week.
via zerohedge
Impeachment will be the road to victory in 2020 for the republicans. We will take back the House, add to the Senate and keep Donald Trump the greatest President for another 4 years.
I have list all respect for the Democratic party as there has always been one hand washing the other between Congress but when you take it to the level that has occurred since mid Obama presidency, this is the mark of true Socialism which is nothing more than lying, deception for a truly governed move to pure communism. You cannot compare countries like Canada, Sweden, etc. to the United States as the size and population alone is so much larger. Compare more to the size of Russia and then grasp the idea. I’m very tired of the government wasting out tax dollars in this witch hunt and not getting down to business of making this country the best there is. If you want a socialist government then retire to a Socialist country. Amazing how this country’s government was run so amuk as it has in the last 10 years. It has cost us trillions and the damage that has been done is trying to be corrected but the means used to take it down are still trying by utter criminal behavior. Time for term limits of elected Congress, oversight and get back to running our country.
i wish this dumb bitch from california would keep this stupid shit up because it just makes trump look better and it makes the rats look more and more desperate. but the people of this country are not stupid
What is it with the democratic party ?
They are all, both Republican and Democrat, to serve the citizens of the United States. Not to fight whose party is greater than the other. Get back to serving the people as a team, not separate nation’s. NOW !
There isn’t much question that Russian intelligence services did interfere in the 2016 election. The Mueller report basically exonerates Trump of any collusion in the matter, though the FBI also interfered the other way. Doesn’t the House have anything better to do at this point?
The Democrat House has become a steaming pile of poop, thanks to AOC, Omar and Tlaib, with Pelosi no longer able to pretend that she’s the adult in the room. I would like to believe that we Americans deserve better than this. This sucks, and I am so sick and tired of it that I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
THE RUSSIANS DID INTERFERE. NOW THINK WOULD THEY WANT TRUMP WHO THEY KNOW IS A FIGHTING TOUGH BUSINESSMAN OR SUICIDE KILLERY WHO GAVE THEM THE URANIUM AND HAS COLLECTED MILLIONS FROM THEM SO THAT SHE WOULD OWE FAVORS FOR AND IS CORRUPT AS HELL. IF YOU WERE THE RUSSIAN WHO WOULD RATHER HAVE AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.? BUT THAT WASN’T THEIR AGENDA, THEY COULD CARE LESS WHO WON THEY ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL AND THAT WAS TO PIT THE PARTIES AGAINST EACH OTHER AND WITH WHAT THE THE DEMORAT COCKROACHES HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST AT LEAST 8 YEARS IT WAS EASY FOR THEM.