Pelosi insisted congressional Democrats were obligated to push forward with their impeachment inquiry regardless of the 2020 election — but also warned that a second Trump term would wreak “irreparable damage” on the country
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted congressional Democrats were obligated to push forward with their impeachment inquiry regardless of its political ramifications for the 2020 election — but also warned that a second term of Donald Trump’s presidency would wreak “irreparable damage” upon the country.
“But I will say this: Having said all of that, separate from that, the re-election of Donald Trump would do irreparable damage to the United States,” Pelosi added. “We have some serious repair and healing to do in our country for what he's done so far. I'm not sure that two terms — it might be irreparable.
But in her interview Thursday, Pelosi offered a full-throated defense of the impeachment probe and attempted to counter prominent Republican lines of attack that have emerged in recent days — including a complaint by GOP lawmakers that she had not formally launched the inquiry with a resolution approved by the full House.
The speaker even claimed that a final vote to impeach the president at the conclusion of the House's investigative process was not inevitable.
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