5/8/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Wednesday [5-8-19] that President Donald Trump is building his own case for impeachment by continuing to stonewall lawmakers in their demand for testimony and documents from the White House…The speaker has consistently sought to tamp down talk among the Democratic Caucus of impeaching the president, warning that the divisive process should not be taken lightly. On Tuesday [5-7-19] and again on Wednesday, she said it was possible that Trump was looking to play on that division, ‘goading’ Democratic lawmakers into initiating impeachment proceedings…The speaker had pointed out a day before that one of the articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon charged that he obstructed Congress, but on Wednesday she wouldn’t commit to that kind of a narrow impeachment push against Trump.”

Caitlin Oprysko, “Pelosi: Trump is becoming ‘self-impeachable’,” Politico, May 8, 2019 9:21 am