Nadler’s talk with ABC was the clearest indication yet that Democrats have decided to impeach Trump and are now simply doing the legwork involved in making that happen. And that means the debate among House Democrats will be a tactical one — what is the best time and way to go forward — rather than a more fundamental discussion of whether the president should be impeached.
Indeed, other House Democrats are sending similar messages. “There is abundant evidence of collusion,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff said on CBS Sunday. Schiff has launched a new Trump-Russia investigation to re-cover the territory covered in the probes done by his own committee, by the Senate Intelligence Committee, and by Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I have said that I think we should await the evidence from Bob Mueller as well as our own work,” Schiff said. That could mean almost anything; Schiff’s committee can — and most certainly will — investigate Trump for the rest of the president’s term. What Schiff did not say is at what point House Democrats will decide to pull the trigger.
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