Nancy Pelosi: It Would Be 'Harmful To Unity' To Skip Trump Impeachment Trial

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Source: huff post




01/21/2021 12:44 pm ET

You don’t ignore a president’s actions “because people think we should make nice-nice and forget that people died here,” said the House speaker.




House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday resoundingly rejected the idea that moving forward with a Senate impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump could undercut President Joe Biden’s message of unity in America.

“I don’t see that at all,” Pelosi said in her weekly press briefing when asked the question. “I think that would be harmful to unity.”

The fact is, she said, that Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, when a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and roamed the halls looking for lawmakers to stop them from certifying Biden’s electoral win. Five people died.

“Just because he’s gone now ― thank god ― you don’t say to a president, ‘Do whatever you want in the last months of your administration’ … because people think we should make nice-nice and forget that people died here, that [Trump attempted] to undermine our election, to undermine our democracy, to dishonor our Constitution,” said Pelosi.

“Joe Biden said it beautifully: ‘...................

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I wish we could just get it over with.

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[Maxheader]

1. Right on Nancy!

May the wingers in congress with dirt on theys britches do a little sweating...

[electric_blue68]

2. THIS! "nice-nice" indeed! 🙄🤪 Gooo Nancy! 👏

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That's the way it's done, you don't let Republicans write the narrative

that they push the press into, you grab the issues and frame them with the truth.

[Blue Owl]

4. K&R

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. That's my girl!

[paleotn]

6. Well played, Madam Speaker. Well played.

[orangecrush]

7. Angry Nancy

Is their worst nightmare.

Picture that ignorant asshole with his feet propped up on her desk.

There will be a reckoning.

[riversedge]

8. I do not think it is so much anger as just being disgusted with Repugs--and yes, the

Capitol riot--and the stupid people who broke into her office-and the Capitol--her domain.

[orangecrush]

12. She is cool under fire

But her anger is a righteous anger.

They attacked democracy directly, I know I am angry.

[IsItJustMe]

9. Tell it like it is Nancy. She got more Kahuna's then all of them Republicans combined.

I absolutely love that woman. Sweet, kind, and will bust you upside your head (preverbally) in
a New York second.

[Hekate]

10. Cojones

Kahunas are native Hawaiian teachers, doctors, wise persons, ministers... in ancient times, sometimes all rolled up into one.

Cojones are testicles/balls in Spanish.

Although, truly Nancy Pelosi is wise and she is courageous.

[IsItJustMe]

14. I know. I just used a replacement word so as not to offend anyone

or seem macho. But with that being said, woman have em too (in a figurative sense of course).

[raccoon]

11. You rock, Nancy! Nt

[Billytee]

13. The Speaker is absolutely right!

No traitor gets a pass on this one. Those who participated in the rebellion must pay the price. They knew what they were doing.

[Vivienne235729]

15. Madame speaker is, once again, absolutely right.

[mpcamb]

16. 'Harmful To Unity' and JUSTICE, too.