Nancy Pelosi: It Would Be 'Harmful To Unity' To Skip Trump Impeachment Trial [View all]
Source: huff post
01/21/2021 12:44 pm ET
You don’t ignore a president’s actions “because people think we should make nice-nice and forget that people died here,” said the House speaker.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday resoundingly rejected the idea that moving forward with a Senate impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump could undercut President Joe Biden’s message of unity in America.
“I don’t see that at all,” Pelosi said in her weekly press briefing when asked the question. “I think that would be harmful to unity.”
The fact is, she said, that Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, when a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and roamed the halls looking for lawmakers to stop them from certifying Biden’s electoral win. Five people died.
“Just because he’s gone now ― thank god ― you don’t say to a president, ‘Do whatever you want in the last months of your administration’ … because people think we should make nice-nice and forget that people died here, that [Trump attempted] to undermine our election, to undermine our democracy, to dishonor our Constitution,” said Pelosi.
“Joe Biden said it beautifully: ‘...................
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I wish we could just get it over with.
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