Pelosi responds to losing impeachment effort with more bad faith arguments

The Lid:

Last week it was “he’ll be impeached forever.” But facing the prospect of he’ll be acquitted forever, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, D-CA., hit peak “stupid.” On Thursday, she put forward the notion that President Trump really won’t be acquitted if the Senate votes to acquit him.

” Do you think President Trump will be chastened…or will he be emboldened because the Senate will have acquitted him?” a reporter asked. Her answer was, to put it mildly, curious.

“He will not be acquitted. He cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial. If you don’t have a trial, if you don’t have witnesses and documentation and that. I would hope that the senators, if it comes to a tie or if there’s a question of hearing testimony or receiving documents would leave it up to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Republican-appointed in a Republican Majority court. I would think that they would have confidence in the Chief Justice of the United States, that is really his title.”

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The only reason they are having a fight over witnesses is that the House failed to call them in the first place.  It was her incompetent handling of the impeachment process that left the Democrats vulnerable.  She failed to have a Hosue vote to give the committee authority to subpoena documents and sh was not willing to do the work needed to get the witnesses she wanted from the executive branch. 

While the impeachment effort was always a bad faith operation by Democrats trying to dirty up the President for the 2020 election, her handling of was historically incompetent.  With its failure, she is sounding like a petulant child.