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Nancy Pelosi is stalling on the impeachment trial because she knows Democrats messed up

By Eddie Scarry

Published December 19, 2019 3:54am ET

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Nancy Pelosi is stalling on the impeachment trial because she knows Democrats messed up — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in her office at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. House Democrats are rounding the first 100 days of their new majority taking stock of their accomplishments, noting the stumbles and marking their place as a frontline of resistance to President Donald Trump. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi isn’t stupid. The speaker of the House knows her party screwed up their ridiculous and desperate impeachment push, apparently not having thought things fully through.

Immediately after her party voted, with a few Democratic defections, to impeach President Trump, she threatened to withhold sending both approved articles to the Senate for a trial.

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