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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 Doesnt Have to Indict Trump for Congress to Impeach Him
But the congresswoman says she isnt planning to go down that roadyet.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
7:00 AM ET
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 Trumpand shes prepared to take all the heat from her party and the new House Democratic majority shes hoping to lead, unless she sees something wildly different emerge.
But she said she wont 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. Shes not sure of his mental condition. She thinks hes 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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But the congresswoman says she isnt planning to go down that roadyet.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
7:00 AM ET
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 Trumpand shes prepared to take all the heat from her party and the new House Democratic majority shes hoping to lead, unless she sees something wildly different emerge.
But she said she wont 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. Shes not sure of his mental condition. She thinks hes 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
The house will be busy investigating Trump's taxes and Kav? I am good with that.
Wintryjade
Nov 2018
#4
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)1. That's correct. What Congress regards as a high crime or misdemeanor
isn't necessarily an indictable crime. Impeachment is always a political act.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)2. Pelosi is 1000 times smarter and a better person than rump the traitor.
She will take him DOWN
BootinUp
(47,144 posts)3. She's good ya know. Nt
Wintryjade
(814 posts)4. The house will be busy investigating Trump's taxes and Kav? I am good with that.
Iowa420
(19 posts)5. While she is correct
I wonder if given the chance she partake in an impeachment hearing?
sigpooie
(106 posts)6. Does constitutional crisis mean we can't fix it.
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.