After pushing for months to impeach President Trump, Nancy Pelosi abandoned all urgency on Thursday, playing coy on when she would send the case to the Senate - where Republicans accused her of getting "Cold feet."
Confronted with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's far dimmer view of the impeachment hearings as the "Most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair" in modern history, Pelosi's pre-Christmas cheer soured.
McConnell's remarks, Pelosi said, "Reminded me that our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president. I don't think they suspected we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the Senate at the same time."
When a reporter followed with, "To that end, you're criticizing McConnell today ," Pelosi cut off the inquiry and grew dour.
"Mr. President, looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial," he said on the Senate floor in a long-distance message to Trump.
"Speaker Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate."
McConnell made clear that the Senate will not need its own lengthy hearing to reach the conclusion to trash the two articles of impeachment, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/20/pelosi-lashes-out-at-reporter-amid-delays-in-senate-impeachment-trial/amp/
Confronted with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's far dimmer view of the impeachment hearings as the "Most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair" in modern history, Pelosi's pre-Christmas cheer soured.
McConnell's remarks, Pelosi said, "Reminded me that our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president. I don't think they suspected we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the Senate at the same time."
When a reporter followed with, "To that end, you're criticizing McConnell today ," Pelosi cut off the inquiry and grew dour.
"Mr. President, looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial," he said on the Senate floor in a long-distance message to Trump.
"Speaker Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate."
McConnell made clear that the Senate will not need its own lengthy hearing to reach the conclusion to trash the two articles of impeachment, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/20/pelosi-lashes-out-at-reporter-amid-delays-in-senate-impeachment-trial/amp/
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