Pelosi didn’t throw impeachment away, she put it in the fridge for later

Published March 12, 2019 2:00pm ET



Anyone who thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., just wrote off impeachment as an option is deluding themselves. She would be stupid to preemptively discard that as a potential route and, contrary to the incisive analysis of Fox News contributors, Pelosi isn’t stupid.

Pelosi wrapped herself in the flag, telling the Washington Post in an interview published Monday that impeaching President Trump would be too “divisive” and that, “I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.”

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