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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Mueller testimony, Pelosi, Democratic chairs crack door on impeachment
When we go down this path, we want it to be unifying for our country, not divided. And thats why we want it to be the strongest possible case, Pelosi told reporters Wednesday evening after former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
President Lincoln said public sentiment is everything, the California Democrat continued. Well, in order for the public to have the sentiment, the public has to know. So hopefully, well be messengers of the truth to the public. We think today was really a milestone in making that sentiment.
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House Democrats plan to go a step further than Mueller did in his report by digging into Trumps finances, Pelosi said.
The Mueller investigation could not get into the presidents personal and business connections. And one of those connections could be to the Russians, and thats what we want to find out, she said.
More-
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/after-mueller-testimony-pelosi-and-democratic-chairmen-crack-door-on-impeachment
President Lincoln said public sentiment is everything, the California Democrat continued. Well, in order for the public to have the sentiment, the public has to know. So hopefully, well be messengers of the truth to the public. We think today was really a milestone in making that sentiment.
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House Democrats plan to go a step further than Mueller did in his report by digging into Trumps finances, Pelosi said.
The Mueller investigation could not get into the presidents personal and business connections. And one of those connections could be to the Russians, and thats what we want to find out, she said.
More-
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/after-mueller-testimony-pelosi-and-democratic-chairmen-crack-door-on-impeachment
Notice she said "when" and not "if."
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After Mueller testimony, Pelosi, Democratic chairs crack door on impeachment (Original Post)
Poiuyt
Jul 2019
OP
That's the ticket. Trump has been financially connected to Russian criminals and oligarchs
emmaverybo
Jul 2019
#1
If she says the word, they will support it. And if they come up with financial ties to Russia....
Cetacea
Jul 2019
#3
The messengers of truth have been unleashed, may they land on the roofs of the corporate
FredSanderson
Jul 2019
#4
If Pelosi were against impeachment, we wouldn't even be talking about it as a possibility
StarfishSaver
Jul 2019
#7
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)1. That's the ticket. Trump has been financially connected to Russian criminals and oligarchs
for decades. No coincidence Russians helped him get elected.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)2. Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Have The Votes To Impeach Trump
Link to tweet
Pelosis majority includes 31 members who represent districts Trump carried in 2016 and could face electoral danger. Impeachment might accomplish little more than energizing Trump 2020 voters.
Close Pelosi allies insist she couldnt gain majority support for impeachment even if she tried, not to mention the two-thirds of a Republican-run Senate needed for conviction and removal from office. There will never be 218 in the House, a leadership aide told me.....
The votes arent there. The 31 Democrats who represent districts that Donald Trump won in 2016 can see that impeachment is not popular with voters in general. If these nearly three dozen Democrats want to win second terms and keep the House in Democratic hands, they feel the need to stay far away from impeachment.
Blaming Pelosi is both easy, and it displays a fundamental ignorance of the dynamics of this Democratic House majority.
Robert Muellers testimony was an important step, but unless public opinion changes and a whole bunch of House Democrats change their minds, impeachment wont happen in the House before the 2020 election.
Close Pelosi allies insist she couldnt gain majority support for impeachment even if she tried, not to mention the two-thirds of a Republican-run Senate needed for conviction and removal from office. There will never be 218 in the House, a leadership aide told me.....
The votes arent there. The 31 Democrats who represent districts that Donald Trump won in 2016 can see that impeachment is not popular with voters in general. If these nearly three dozen Democrats want to win second terms and keep the House in Democratic hands, they feel the need to stay far away from impeachment.
Blaming Pelosi is both easy, and it displays a fundamental ignorance of the dynamics of this Democratic House majority.
Robert Muellers testimony was an important step, but unless public opinion changes and a whole bunch of House Democrats change their minds, impeachment wont happen in the House before the 2020 election.
Cetacea
(7,367 posts)3. If she says the word, they will support it. And if they come up with financial ties to Russia....
Last edited Thu Jul 25, 2019, 08:24 PM - Edit history (1)
public support will grow quickly. Media is pushing the meme that there aren't votes a day after Mueller testified. Pathetic.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)6. Why didn't the Squad vote with Pelosi on the border spending bill
If Members will vote the way Pelosi wants just because she says so, why didn't Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Pressley and Omar vote with her then?
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)8. The public doesn't care! When will we understand that?
FredSanderson
(27 posts)4. The messengers of truth have been unleashed, may they land on the roofs of the corporate
media and shit truth all over them until even they are forced to help us clean up the mess left by fascism.
fallout87
(819 posts)5. It's pretty clear Pelosi is against impeachment.
If she wasn't, the proceedings would have started already. She smart enough to know we can't hang our hats on ONE testimony.
2020 is where it's at.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)7. If Pelosi were against impeachment, we wouldn't even be talking about it as a possibility
She would have shut it down a long time ago.
fallout87
(819 posts)9. Ok...
are you prepared to hold your breath on that?