Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: 'He's Just Not Worth It'

[Jedi Guy]

163. By acknowledging the fact that it would be little more than political theater?

The plain fact is that unless there is a smoking gun in the Mueller report, the GOP simply will not vote to convict him. They just won't. The only way they would ever vote to convict him is if whatever Mueller found is so damaging to their future political prospects that it's in their interests to cut him loose and leave him to his fate.

Now consider his core base of fanatics, and ask yourself: are the Repubs going to be willing to piss those people off? Like it or not, they're beholden to Trump's base now, and they can't risk alienating that base unless the alternative is utter and complete ruin. Which goes back to what I said above about the magnitude of Trump's crimes.

Bottom line: While the GOP controls the Senate, impeachment is just so much shouting unless Mueller turns up something so absolutely horrific that the Repubs simply can't ignore it or hand-wave it away. Hell, they're already at it with the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and others. That is, unfortunately, the reality we live in.

Pelosi is smart to say this, because impeachment can always go right back on that old table in response to the Mueller report, depending on what's found. By saying this, she's blunting the GOP's response of, "Well, they were gonna impeach Trump no matter what Mueller found, so it's all politically motivated!"