Member-only story
Are Democrats Bungling Impeachment?
Why the strategy of delaying the transfer to the senate is almost certainly a bad one.
For the Republican Party and President Donald Trump in particular, the past few months have been chaotic to say the least. Since news broke of Trump’s phone call with the President of Ukraine in which he attempted to solicit the help of a foreign government for his own personal political benefit, Republicans have been scrambling to find ways in which they can defend him.
Now as we all know, the President’s actions have resulted in his impeachment, making him just the third President in United States history to be impeached. While many have reasonably predicted there will be a full acquittal following the trial in the Republican majority senate, we may be waiting a while longer to see the results of the trial. For reasons of which we can only speculate, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has made the decision to hold off on naming House Managers, and transferring the necessary documents over to the Senate for the trial.
Unfortunately, it really comes as no surprise that Democrats have found another way to bungle this.
While some of Nancy Pelosi’s fans in the cocktail circuit of D.C. might think it’s a smart political move to hold off the senate trial, I’m sure I’m…
