Speaker Pelosi is ruling out a possible impeachment of President Donald Trump, saying although he is unfit intellectually and ethically to be President, impeaching him is not worth it.
Speaker Pelosi added that there is no doubt Trump’s Presidency is deteriorating each day, and that the only way he can be impeached is if there is an overwhelming evidence against him.But that move is one which is not in the plans of Congress, as it could also divide the country even more. She had told Washington post
“I’m not for impeachment,” Speaker Pelosi told Washington post.
“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 said. “He’s just not worth it.”
Reuters reported that it was Pelosi’s most direct comment yet on Trump’s possible impeachment, a topic she has dealt with cautiously as it carries the potential to sharply split Democrats and the public ahead of next year’s White House and congressional elections.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government and whether Trump has attempted to obstruct the probe. Trump has denied wrongdoing and called the investigation a witch hunt.
Mueller is expected to send a report soon to Attorney General William Barr outlining his findings, and any evidence of wrongdoing could prompt Congress to take action against the president. Several panels in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives are also investigating the president.
Although Speaker Pelosi said she believed it would be too divisive to impeach Trump, she characterized the president as unfit to hold office.
“No, I don’t think he’s fit to be president of the United States,” Pelosi told the Post, adding he was “ethically unfit, intellectually unfit, curiosity-wise unfit.”
Democrats face growing pressure from the left for impeachment, including a multimillion-dollar ad campaign from liberal billionaire Tom Steyer to build support for action against Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee, which would lead an impeachment inquiry, recently launched a broad probe of corruption, abuse of power and obstruction of justice allegations against Trump that could amount to impeachable offenses.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler has said he believes Trump has committed obstruction of justice, but that it is too soon to decide on impeachment.
“We do not now have the evidence all sorted out,” Nadler told ABC’s “This Week” program on March 3. “Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen,” Nadler added.
(Reuters)