Pelosi on impeachment: if the Senate exonerates Trump

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132. Not what I took away from it.

She stated that TRUMP knows that impeachment because he believes there is a "silver lining" in impeachment that he would be 'exonerated' by the Senate refusing to remove him, and that there is a "school of thought" that would question why they would need to charge POTUS with once he is no longer POTUS. They must have an ironclad case in order to render that 'school of thought' moot, and show that the crimes are serious enough to be relevant to pursue outside the context of the Oval Office, because the Senate will VOTE in his favor, guaranteed. Once that happens, the DOJ may just make another call on the constitutionality of prosecuting him, we don't know.

It has to involve more than just him requesting that people do things that would obstruct justice - he can say that "he didn't know," or I was just thinking out loud, I didn't mean for them to actually do it..." Like Cohen said, he talks in code to cover his ass, just like anyone in the Mob would. There have to be hard receipts, - documentation, witnesses who will cooperate, so he can't get away with saying, "I don't remember doing that."

That's what ironclad evidence is. That's why we need it in order to prevent anyone, even Barr, from saying that the crimes aren't relevant outside the Oval Office.