Following the post-impeachment vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to delay sending the impeachment articles to the Senate.
Pelosi cited the need for her fellow House members to see exactly what “looks fair to us.”
Normally after impeachment in the House of Representatives, the impeachment articles are sent to the Senate for an impeachment trial but that’s not the case under Speaker Pelosi.
Politico reports:
“So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us,” Pelosi told reporters at a news conference just moments after the House charged Trump with abuse of power and obstructing congressional investigations. “That would’ve been our intention, but we’ll see what happens over there.”
"After making Donald Trump the third president in American history to be impeached… Nancy Pelosi now says she will wait to transmit the articles of impeachment for some guarantees that the Senate trial will be fair…Throwing the timing… into limbo" – @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/fdA6ciLo89
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) December 19, 2019
During Speaker Pelosi’s weekly press conference on Thursday, she got defensive when asked several times why she was holding up the process to send the impeachment articles to the Senate and refused to answer questions on the topic.
Fox News reports:
But as reporters continued to pepper her with questions on the subject, the speaker responded, “I said what I was going to say.” She later asked if anyone had questions about other issues such as the “SALT tax,” stating, “I’m not going to answer any more questions on this.”
President Trump commented on Pelosi delaying the process saying “she is afraid to present it to the Senate.”
“The Senate shall set the time and place of the trial.” If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2019
Pelosi feels her phony impeachment HOAX is so pathetic she is afraid to present it to the Senate, which can set a date and put this whole SCAM into default if they refuse to show up! The Do Nothings are so bad for our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2019
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham raised the question “why the silence now?”
We at the @WhiteHouse have been answering questions on it all morning @SpeakerPelosi – because when you wrongfully impeach a President, people deserve answers. You’ve been talking nothing but impeachment for months (years really) – why the silence now? https://t.co/jjy2PIDeik
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 19, 2019
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Pelosi is too “embarrassed” about the impeachment failure and “is admitting defeat.”
Democrats were in a rush to impeach President Trump but Pelosi’s stall tactic to delay sending the impeachment articles to the Senate further exposes their partisan political agenda.
