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

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228. There are other ways to chip away at DT other than impeachment - that's not the only avenue.

Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal process. As Pelosi says, there needs to be hard evidence and bipartisan support for impeachment to work.

There is no way to remove him from office without the cooperation of the Senate, so it would be picking a fight we know we would lose, which makes it easy for the GOP to say that it's a partisan witch hunt. Why do this if it would not remove him, and would give the GOP ammunition in the next election?

Bill Clinton was found guilty of perjury. Even that did not get removed from office because the Senate voted to keep him in office.

The Cohen hearings didn't require impeachment, did they? You impeach when you have evidence of a crime, one serious enough for the GOP senators to think will make their base turn against him.

The problem is, there may be no way for Democrats to remove him before 2020. Watergate took two years from the first indictment to the impeachment to start.

I think the most likely scenario for him to leave before 2020 is that the NY AG convicts Ivanka or others in his family, then gets him to resign in exchange for a lighter sentence. He can't pardon her for that. But 2020 is next year, and these things take time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/nyregion/deutsche-bank-trump.html

Voting him out of office is the only sure, final way to get rid of him. We have to accept that as the most probably outcome, and not be outraged that Dems can't do the impossible. They are, however, ready to go on impeachment the minute they have "hard evidence and bi-partisan support."