Earlier this year when Nancy Pelosi became the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, there were indications from different angles that she might be championing a move to facilitate the impeachment of President Donald Trump. As against what many people expected from her, she had been reluctant to pursue that line of thinking. After the 2018 elections which gave the Democrats an edge and the power to carry out the impeachment process in a seemingly smooth sailing fashion, more and more political analysts are beginning to expect Nancy Pelosi more than ever to try see to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
As against the expectation of many political analysts, Nancy Pelosi is outrightly not considering an impeachment move. To say the least of it she is actually opposed to any call for impeachment against Donald Trump. She made this declaration in an interview that it is more reasonable for Democrats to allow the voters to send Donald Trump packing in the 2020 elections and not through impeachment hearings.
According to her, that is the safest and most politically prudent strategy to getting President Donald Trump out of the White House. In a clear cut statement she stated, “I am not for impeachment,” “This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.” She went further to say referring to Trump: “He’s just not worth it.”
With this recent declaration by Nancy Pelosi, she is of the opinion that whatever the report coming from the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III or the newly launched investigations run by House Democrats, she is not interested in any legislation that will be geared towards the impeachment of President Donald Trump, because she strongly believe that he will be voted out in the 2020 general election by the people. With this, she is banishing any thought in her mind concerning the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
From this line of thinking, she will be kicking against any impeachment move against President Donald Trump because of how badly impeachment moves on the president can backfire on the impeaching party by citing the example of impeachment moves on ex-president Bill Clinton who had an affair in the White House, lied under oath and obstructed justice, but in spite of all these wrong doings, the American people still stood by him and turn their back on the impeaching party, referring to them as being unreasonably antagonistic.
Nancy Pelosi is of the opinion that since President Trump is to face re-election in 2020, of what use is it to remove him through an impeachment hearings in early 2020 which might boomerang on the impeaching party if the American people think that they are just unreasonably antagonistic as in the case of ex-president Bill Clinton.
She is of the opinion that Democrats should allow President Donald Trump to face the American people in a re-election bid with all those allegations of wrongdoings level against him and see that the people remove him through election.
As against what Nancy Pelosi believes, so many Democrats and their supporters are very anxious to see that President Donald Trump is removed from office as soon as possible. Many believed that he had committed several unacceptable crimes while in office and should be removed as soon as possible.
After seeing the stern rebuke of Rep. IIhan Oman by calling his statement “anti-Semitic” and the recent stand of Nancy Pelosi on the issue of impeachment of President Donald Trump, it is very reasonable to believe that at the moment there is a crack in the camp of the Democrats concerning the impeachment moves.
Even the very outspoken freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez haven’t tried to force the impeachment moves. When asked last week on her stand on the impeachment saga all Ocasio-Cortez could say was that she still believes that President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses, but she added: “I defer to the chair. I defer to party leadership.”
