Rep JERRY NADLER (soon to oversee impeachment) "Potus is directly implicated in criminal conspiracy"

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[awesomerwb1]

1. Love the part where he says

"Democrats are poised to take action to respond to this CULTURE OF CORRUPTION THAT HAS TAKEN HOLD UNDER MR.TRUMP AND REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITIES.

Dems, say it over and over and over again. CULTURE OF CORRUPTION!!

Nice letter. "House Republicans may be willing to abet President Trump's worst behavior, but I am not". Nice.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Sounds like Nadler and Pelosi aren't on the same page

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/403024-pelosi-says-impeachment-not-a-priority?amp&__twitter_impression=true

One wonders what it would take for her to update the script.

[FakeNoose]

5. Nancy Pelosi has reasons for saying this

Trust me, Pelosi wants to be rid of the orange asshole as much as any of us do. She has strategic reasons for saying that "impeachment is not a priority" however.

She understands that there are many contested districts in the 50 states where Democratic candidates are trying hard to beat the Republican incumbent. Many (if not most) have a good chance of succeeding in winning their seats and flipping their districts. But it's still a tough sell in the red districts, so there's no reason to make it harder for them. There's no need to push the treason/impeachment talk now. Don't get the GOP all upset, let them think everything is hunky-dory. Obviously it's not, but we just need to get the seats flipped to blue in November.

Once the Dems win the majority in the House, it's a whole new ballgame. We're not there yet, but we will be in November. Trust Nancy Pelosi, she knows what she's doing. She's been around the block a few times. She'll be leading the impeachment brigade when the time comes.

[BeyondGeography]

6. The problem is no one actually believes impeachment won't be a priority

[triron]

10. True. Besides her stance risks putting off the liberal dem base

especially the young.

[DallasNE]

19. You Don't Say One Thing

Before the election and another thing after the election all Trump like.

That said, we need to let things play out and see where it takes us. No need to be premature either way.

[octoberlib]

9. Pelosi doesn't want to motivate Trump voters to the polls in red districts that Democrats

are trying to win. Bannon told Ari Melber he's going to use impeachment to motivate the Trump Troll base.

[aikoaiko]

3. Some of Nadler's words during the Clinton impeachment will comeback to haunt him.

This will be interesting.

[JHan]

7. no they won't.

Unless you actually believe Clinton's behavior which lead to impeachment and Trump's are one in the same.

and there's a word for such specious reasoning: bothsideism.

[aikoaiko]

11. We'll see.

I remember some talk by Nadler that impeachment shouldn't happen if it wasn't supported by a vast majority of Americans and covering up an affair was not an impeachable event. Maybe that was someone else.

[JHan]

12. ..

know what..nevermind. Because I refuse to explain why this shit is different. It's not like people don't know .. so this is all I've got:

[aikoaiko]

17. Of course its different. That's not really the point.

[JHan]

18. Right it is different,

you are right to point out the political calculations which need to be made but again, I don't see how Nadler's words will come to haunt anything- since we both acknowledge Trump's behavior to be far more egregious.

[NewJeffCT]

13. I think once they hold hearings

and idiots like Don Jr, Eric, Jared, Manafort,Gates, Papadapolous, etc testify under oath and start stabbing each other in the back and/or making huge gaffes, we'll see support for impeachment increase quite a bit from its already high levels. I think most polls have indicated that impeachment support is already higher than Trump's overall support.

I don't recall there being an overwhelming groundswell of Americans wanting to impeach Clinton back in the 90s - it fired up the RW base of the Republicans, but Democrats and independents were "meh" about it, or felt that censure was more appropriate.

According to this - it was 65 to 32 against impeachment after a week of hearings
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/21/us/impeachment-polls-public-support-for-president-for-closure-emerges-unshaken.html

Trump is already in the 40s on needing to be impeached.

[aikoaiko]

16. I'd like to believe that more people will want impeachment.

[NewJeffCT]

15. as I posted below

At it's height a week into hearings on impeachment in 1998, it was 65 to 32 AGAINST the idea of Clinton being impeached or resigning

Trump is already into the 40s on being impeached.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/21/us/impeachment-polls-public-support-for-president-for-closure-emerges-unshaken.html

[uponit7771]

4. +1, Red Don knowingly directed the commission of a crime.

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R

[sarcasmo]

14. #TrumpKnew

[JCMach1]

20. Dems need to push the idea of two prongs impeach AND indict

at the same time... Reason, Senate Republicans cannot be relied upon to do their damn job.