Even Nancy Pelosi Suggests Trump Hasn’t Done Anything To Warrant Impeachment In Second Term

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that President Donald Trump has not yet committed any acts worthy of impeachment during his second term in a Monday episode of USA Today’s “The Excerpt.”

House Democrats successfully impeached Trump twice in his first term during Pelosi’s speakership. On the podcast, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page sought to clarify Pelosi’s position on whether Democrats should impeach Trump again if they regain control of the House.

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“ust to make sure I understand you, should not be the agenda of Democrats for this last two years,” Page said.

“No, I mean unless he — if he crosses the border again. But that’s not an incidental thing you say — ‘We’re going to do that.’ No, there has to be cause. There has to be reason. We had review. This was a very serious historic thing,” Pelosi responded. “And our founders knew that there could be a rogue president. And that’s why they put impeachment in the Constitution. They didn’t know there’d be a rogue president at the same time a rogue Senate that didn’t have the courage to do the right thing. It was bipartisan in the Senate, but it wasn’t enough.”

Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump on Dec. 18, 2019, during Pelosi’s speakership for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after Pelosi’s early reluctance. The impeachment was related to a scandal regarding Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — specifically whether the president