For all the press attention devoted to the growing number of House Democrats who favour initiating an impeachment process now, the total (now over 50) represents only about one-fifth of the party’s House membership. Launching an impeachment process now, she fears, would undermine her main goals: To avoid jeopardising the Democrats’ hard-won control of the House and to maximise the party’s chances in the presidential election next year. Most important, a decision not to initiate an impeachment process against Trump could set a terrible precedent. To discourage her Democratic House colleagues from advocating impeachment, Pelosi warns that Trump wants to be impeached, because he thinks it would play to his political advantage. Even worse for Trump, the widely admired Mueller in effect recommended that Congress undertake an impeachment process.

Source: Irish Examiner June 07, 2019 23:02 UTC