Opinion: An impeachment that Democratic leaders can get behind
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 2 at 3:15 PM It is striking, given how reticent they have been on the topic of impeaching President Trump, to hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer open the door to impeachment of Trump’s attorney general. Mr.
What a statement! What a statement. If the president himself believes he was falsely accused, he can ... terminate any investigation or proceeding against him? Any at all? And is that determination in the president’s own head and nobody else’s? Pelosi went even further. “I really lost sleep last night after watching over and over again the testimony of the attorney general of the United States,” she said at her Thursday news conference. “How sad it is … to see the top law enforcement officer in our country misrepresented, withholding the truth from the Congress of the United States.” As for Barr’s earlier claim that he had no idea that special counsel Robert S.
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