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sl8

(13,584 posts)
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 12:40 PM Nov 2018

Nancy Pelosi: Mueller Doesn't Have to Indict Trump for Congress to Impeach Him

From https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/why-nancy-pelosi-might-impeach-trump/575560/

Nancy Pelosi: Mueller Doesn’t Have to Indict Trump for Congress to Impeach Him
But the congresswoman says she isn’t planning to go down that road—yet.

EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
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Nancy Pelosi says she's the only one who can navigate impeachment and Donald Trump for House Democrats.
ERIN SCHAFF /THE NEW YORK TIMES /REDUX


Nancy Pelosi really does not want to impeach Donald Trump—and she’s prepared to take all the heat from her party and the new House Democratic majority she’s hoping to lead, unless she sees something wildly different emerge.

But she said she won’t let Bob Mueller define the decision.

“Recognize one point,” Pelosi told me in an interview in the conference room of her minority leader suite in the Capitol late Friday. “What Mueller might not think is indictable could be impeachable.”

Pelosi said people should pray for the country as long as Trump is in charge. She’s not sure of his mental condition. She thinks he’s degraded the Constitution and American values. She says the intelligence assessments are indisputable that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. She thinks the firing of Jeff Sessions and appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general in a clear move against the Mueller probe “is perilously close to a Constitutional crisis.”

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Nancy Pelosi: Mueller Doesn't Have to Indict Trump for Congress to Impeach Him (Original Post) sl8 Nov 2018 OP
That's correct. What Congress regards as a high crime or misdemeanor The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2018 #1
Pelosi is 1000 times smarter and a better person than rump the traitor. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 #2
She's good ya know. Nt BootinUp Nov 2018 #3
The house will be busy investigating Trump's taxes and Kav? I am good with that. Wintryjade Nov 2018 #4
While she is correct Iowa420 Nov 2018 #5
Does constitutional crisis mean we can't fix it. sigpooie Nov 2018 #6

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
1. That's correct. What Congress regards as a high crime or misdemeanor
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 12:44 PM
Nov 2018

isn't necessarily an indictable crime. Impeachment is always a political act.

sigpooie

(106 posts)
6. Does constitutional crisis mean we can't fix it.
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:33 PM
Nov 2018

We are we not moving as quickly as he is. We have to impeach. And any one who does not move to do so should be impeached with him.
As for the question titled, I would really love to know if we have any process in place that would include the problem of a constitutional crisis.

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