Jerry Nadler: If Senate Acquits Trump, 'I Don't Know' if 2020 Election Will Be Fair

[highplainsdem]

Mediaite article, with video at the link:


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jerry-nadler-if-senate-acquits-trump-i-dont-know-if-2020-election-will-be-fair/

Nadler gave a broad-range interview to NBC’s Chuck Todd for Meet The Press, where he faced numerous questions about how many articles of impeachment the House of Representatives will file against Trump, and on what charges. Towards the end of the interview, Todd asked Nadler what the consequences could be if Trump is impeached but acquitted.

“I don’t know he’ll be acquitted,” Nadler said. “The senators are going to have to decide, the House members first are going to have to decide, and then the senators will have to decide in the face of an abundance of uncontested evidence the president poses a threat to our election. He put his own interests above the interests of the country, are they going to be patriots or are they going to be partisans?”

“Let me ask this,” Todd followed up. “If he is acquitted, do you think we’ll have a fair election in 2020?”

“I don’t know,” Nadler answered. “The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not make it a fair election. That’s part of what gives us the urgency to proceed with impeachment.”

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[LakeArenal]

1. Even without trump they cheat.

Openly through gerrymandering or on the low down with rigged voting machines. Ballots that disappear or uncounted. Found ballots that tip the scale.

So chances are, rigged.

Wisconsin has been doing the above for years before Russians. We were the Petrie dish for corrupt politics. And look how messed up it is.

[turbinetree]

2. Then there is Florida, Georgia that always make the top ten list............................

[triron]

3. Is Todd asking a rhetorical question? Of course it won't be. Duh.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[Takket]

5. "Uncontested evidence"

Nadler kept using that phrase and it is a good one. Dems need to keep using it. In this whole process the rethugs have attacked the Bidens, the witnesses, House Dems, our intelligence services, Ukraine... but never any of the actual evidence.... because they have none of their own to present.

Keep using that phrase!

[dalton99a]

6. +1. They cannot dispute the facts.

[myohmy2]

7. "... do you think we'll have a fair election in 2020?"

"...will do everything he can to make it not make it a fair election."

...scary situation...

...no telling where all this is heading...but we have no choice...

...to do nothing puts the president above the law...to impeach will further harden the divisions...

...like I've said before, I didn't think one person could ever fuck up the country because our institutions were so resilient...

...now I'm not so sure...

...either way, we're a different country because of trump...