Pelosi claims she feels NO pressure to impeach Trump

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday brushed aside pressure to begin the impeachment process against President Donald Trump even as a new poll shows more than two-thirds of Democrats want proceedings to begin.  

‘I feel no pressure from our members to do anything. I have no pressure on them to do anything,’ she told reporters Wednesday morning at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

But 67 per cent of Democrats said lawmakers should begin impeachment proceedings, the first step for removing the president from office, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed aside pressure to begin the impeachment process against President Donald Trump

The poll found 67 per cent of Democratic voters want lawmakers to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump

The poll found 67 per cent of Democratic voters want lawmakers to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump

Pelosi said her line in the sand to beginning such proceedings would be when the current investigations against the president stop finding information.

‘When we stop finding even more information,’ she said when asked at what point she’d want to begin the impeachment process.

‘With me this runs deep and every day we see more, so why would we stop with a less strong case,’ she said.

She also dismissed bringing some kind of lesser charge against the president – such as censure, which is a formal reprimand. 

‘Censure is just a way out,’ she said. ‘If you’re going to impeach, impeach.’

She added that censure would be a ‘day at the beach for the president or his golf club or where ever he goes.’

The speaker also repeated the argument she has been making as more and more members of her party say it’s time for impeachment proceedings to begin.

‘I don’t think you should have inquiry unless you’re ready to impeach,’ she said.

And the wave could continue to grow as Democrats bring more current and former Trump administration officials to testify before Congress. 

Former White House communications director Hope Hicks testifies behind closed doors Wednesday.

Democrats are also trying to speak to former White House counsel Don McGahn. 

Both were featured prominently in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. 

And some lawmakers in vulnerable seats, whose 2018 victories returned Pelosi to the speaker’s chair, are now saying it’s time to impeach.

‘We’re just getting closer and closer to a point where we have to do something,” freshman Democratic Rep. Katie Hill told Politico.

‘I think that impeachment is incredibly serious, and this is about the presence and evidence that the president may have committed a crime, in this case more than one,’ freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on ABC’s ‘This Week’ on Sunday.

‘And so I believe that our decision on impeachment should be based in our constitutional responsibilities and duties, and not in elections or polling.’ 

Additionally several of the Democratic presidential contenders have said it’s time to start impeachment proceedings.  

Pelosi has been balancing a desire from lawmakers on the left to begin the proceedings with a fear such a move could backfire on Democrats in the 2020 election.

Pelosi was in the House when Republicans launched impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton and lost control of the lower chamber in the next election. 

The speaker recently told colleagues that she doesn’t want Trump impeached because she wants to see him prosecuted and put behind bars after he leaves office.

‘I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison.’ Pelosi told other Democrats, according to the report.

During her first ever Sunday show appearance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said an impeachment proceeding should not be based on poll numbers

During her first ever Sunday show appearance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said an impeachment proceeding should not be based on poll numbers

The calls for impeachment began when special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-report was released and Democrats argued there was evidence the president obstructed justice.

Attorney General Bill Barr did not pursue such charges against Trump, which infuriated Democrats.

Five House committees are investigating various aspects of Trump’s life, including his business dealings, his taxes, and his 2016 campaign. 

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