'The president is self-impeaching': The more Democrats push, the more Trump resists, the president making what Nancy Pelosi says is his own case for impeachment with his stonewalling of Congress
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introduced a new concept into the debate over President Donald Trump's actions:"self-impeaching."
"The president is self-impeaching," she told her colleagues last week during a private caucus meeting, echoing comments she also aired in public."He's putting out the case against himself. Obstruction, obstruction, obstruction. Ignoring subpoenas and the rest."There is no actual process for self-impeachment. It's a thought bubble more than a legal term. A pure Pelosi-ism, one that an aide says she coined herself.
In the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, the slow drip of congressional oversight also serves a dual purpose politically. It allows Democrats to keep impeachment proceedings at bay, despite calls to push ahead by the liberal flank, while stoking questions about Trump going into the 2020 presidential election.
So far, House committees have issued multiple subpoenas for executive branch information, including for an unredacted version of the Mueller report and some million of pages of underlying evidence; for testimony and documents from former White House counsel Don McGahn; for information on Trump's business dealings; and for Trump's tax returns.
As McConnell declared the"case closed," he noted that the final stage of grief is acceptance."For the country's sake, I hope my Democratic friends get there soon," he said. House Democrats want Mueller to testify. His report notes that Congress has the ability to"apply the obstruction laws" as part of"our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law." The Democrats want Mueller to more fully explain what he found and what, if anything, he intended for them to do about it.
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