“I think impeachment is too good for him,” the House speaker told Democrats in a private meeting.
By Mike DeBonis and Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow Rachael Bade Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow May 2 at 1:40 PM Attorney General William P. Barr’s confrontational dealings with congressional Democrats prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday to escalate her attacks on President Trump, to the point of comparing his behavior to that of President Richard M. Nixon.
Nixon resigned in August 1974 before the full House voted on the three articles of impeachment that had passed in the Judiciary Committee. “We are in a very, very, very challenging place, because we have a Republican Party that is complicit in the special-interest agenda . . . so they are not going to say anything,” she said at the news conference. “Impeachment is the easy way out for some of these people because they know it will end at the Senate’s edge.”
The comments were a turnabout less than 48 hours after Pelosi visited the White House with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer to discuss a potential infrastructure agreement. Both leaders left the White House beaming about the possibility of a $2 trillion deal and happily noted that Trump had not brought up the Democratic investigations into his campaign, administration, business and family.
On Wednesday, Barr dismissed Mueller’s letter as a “bit snitty” and said he believed it had probably been written by a staff member. Added Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II : “I think everybody, including the speaker, is having to adjust to the tenor of the moment, and it keeps getting worse. I think she’s just moving with the events. Barr has taken it to a whole new level, and if it keeps going like this, it’s going to be to the detriment of the president.”
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