Would the Speaker support impeachment if Trump shot someone on Fifth Ave?

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18. And what is the plan to move public opinion?

The Republicans know how to do this; it's why they hold endless hearings and re-re-re-re-investigate every flyblown "scandal" of Democratic pols and administrations. They drive public opinion by throwing turdballs and even if none of them stick they point at the foul mess at the Democrat's feet and then at the fogbank of steam rising from it and intone "where there's smoke there's fire".

The accusations against Trump aren't turdballs, they're the real thing. They'll stick, they just have to be out where people can see them and can't escape them. Every. Single. Day. Drive the news cycle.

I'm willing to delay my chomping at the bit by hoping that Pelosi is taking a cynical page from the Bush playbook: "Never launch a new product in August", but we're running out of August. Public hearings have to start soon, because this will take months. It has to become an issue for the election, getting the Republicans to pay a price if they keep stonewalling.

If the plan is just to "wait for the election and vote him out", then it doesn't confront the Republicans and lets them paint everything as "just playing politics". The "there" the public will be at is "the Democrats won't fight."