Nancy Pelosi took to Twitter this morning making more excuses for why she isn’t sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate:
The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct.
President Trump blocked his own witnesses and documents from the House, and from the American people, on phony complaints about the House process. What is his excuse now?
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) December 23, 2019
This is malarkey and has nothing to do with why she hasn’t chosen her impeachment managers. Her delay is all about trying to give Schumer leverage with McConnell to get a long trial with witnesses in order to harm Trump as much as possible. Also she’s hoping a long Senate trial would help people forget her own unfair star-chamber House process and perhaps even add legitimacy to it.
Her excuses didn’t go over well with many on Twitter:
This Constitutional outrage by @SpeakerPelosi needs to end.
She is trying to run the Senate and deny President @realDonaldTrump his day in court after the House’s sham impeachment process. https://t.co/fOCW8Tc1L8
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 23, 2019
Prosecutors with strong evidence are eager to put their case on trial.
This is clearly the opposite of that 👇 https://t.co/azv1CM4dAh
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 23, 2019
Why can't you? You can appoint as many as you want, which seems like you could plan on any possibility. Prosecutors are generally assigned randomly and they do just fine. https://t.co/bLUx7ASHRU
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) December 23, 2019
This whole thing is bizarre.
House Dems pushed through the fastest, weakest impeachment in history. Now Pelosi refuses to send it to the Senate, arguing McConnell should strengthen her shoddy case & bring “fairness” to her utterly unfair process.
Bizarre & reeks of politics. https://t.co/qGX8cEEgal
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) December 23, 2019
Stop playing games, @SpeakerPelosi. All we want is for @realDonaldTrump to be treated like Clinton was.
It may seem foreign to Pelosi, but the Senate will follow the precedent established from prior impeachments. We don’t craft constitutional processes based on partisan madness. https://t.co/kc5kzzw1sK
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) December 23, 2019
She knows it’s a dud.https://t.co/UmkxE4cEqM
— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) December 23, 2019
You can't polish a turd, Nancy. It doesn't matter who you send when you don't have a case. https://t.co/bLUx7ASHRU
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) December 23, 2019