Pelosi shoots down censure for Trump: 'If the goods are there you must impeach'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday shrugged off the notion of censuring President Trump, dismissing that strategy as insufficient to the task of holding the president accountable for allegations of misconduct in office.
"I think censure is just a way out," Pelosi said during a breakfast with reporters in Washington hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
"If you're going to go, you've got to go. If the goods are there, you must impeach. And censure is nice, but it is not commensurate with the violations of the Constitution — should we decide that's the way to go," she added. "That's my view."
A handful of Democrats have floated the idea of censuring Trump as an alternative to — or perhaps a first step toward — impeachment while a number of House committees continue with their investigations of the president and his administration. Censure lacks the teeth of impeachment, but supporters say it would, at the very least, get Congress on record formally disapproving of the president's behavior.
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