Pelosi dismisses concerns impeachment push disrupts message on unity: ‘People died here on Jan 6’

Published January 21, 2021 9:07pm ET



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disregarded the idea that impeaching former President Donald Trump after he leaves office would harm her party’s message of healing and unity under President Biden.

“I’m not worried about that,” Pelosi said at a news conference Wednesday. “The fact is, the president of the United States committed an act of incitement of insurrection. I don’t think it’s very unifying to say, ‘Oh, let’s just forget it and move on.’ That’s not how you unify.”

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