Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Donald Trump, even though she believes he is unfit for office - her most definitive statement on ousting the president and one that stands to alienate some members of the Democratic Party.
Other Democrats on investigative committees were surprised that the speaker would all but rule out impeachment just as they were starting their investigations. In the interview, Pelosi said she does not believe that Trump is up to the job of running the country. Asked whether he was fit to be president, she countered: "Are we talking ethically? Intellectually? Politically? What are we talking here?" When a reporter said all, she said he was not.
In an interview with The Washington Post on Monday, pro-impeachment billionaire Tom Steyer said Pelosi "correctly analysed the problem" in concluding that Trump is unfit to be president. "But," he continued, "she's not willing to do what's necessary to solve it for political reasons, and that seems to me to be the essence of what's wrong in Washington, D.C.
Pelosi "wants to get the work done," she added. "She says we have to focus on results, and I have a great appreciation for her saying that, because that works in any congressional district in America." But many Republicans viewed her comments through a political lens, saying Pelosi was merely trying to protect her caucus's moderate members.
For months, Pelosi has treated the possibility of Trump's impeachment delicately, publicly noting the need for bipartisan support and significant evidence of wrongdoing before pursuing the president's removal. Pelosi has, at times, referenced the failed 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton by congressional Republicans as a formative experience in her thinking - an argument she renewed in the interview.
And all those presidents (from Clinton that nailed anything in a skirt to Johnson (who oppressed slaves) Jackson (drove Indians from their lands) Wilson (racist) Roosevelt (Put American-japanese in concentration camps) Truman (dropped the atomic bomb) ALL Democrat, no impeachment
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