Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano recommended to House Democrats that they could potentially add to the current articles of impeachment against President Trump based on new evidence.
“If I were a Democrat in the House, I would be moving to reopen the impeachment on the basis of newly acquired evidence,” he said Monday on Fox News. “These new emails of people getting instructions directly from the president to hold up on the sending of the funds. That would justify holding onto the articles of impeachment, because there’s new evidence, perhaps new articles.”
Napolitano, 69, suggested Republicans should act as if there are no impeachment articles because “there is nothing for the Senate to do.” Sen. Josh Hawley said last week that he plans to introduce a measure to dismiss articles of impeachment.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has held onto articles of impeachment that have passed the House. The California Democrat has demanded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have witnesses at the Senate trial of Trump. McConnell has said Pelosi has no leverage and that she can keep the articles.
Emails made public last month show the White House budget official had asked the Defense Department to “hold off” on delivering military aid to Ukraine. The request came hours after Trump had called Ukraine’s president.
