If Pelosi believed her claims about Trump and Russia, she would impeach

One thing is clear to any fair observer: if Pelosi and Schiff really believed their outlandish rhetoric on Russian collusion, they would be moving to impeach the president. If they believed, as they previously claimed, that there is clear evidence to show Trump is in bed with Putin, they could not move fast enough to present that evidence and force Republicans to defend an obviously compromised commander in chief. The fact is, they don’t have the evidence, and they don’t expect Special Counsel Robert Mueller to provide it.

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Essentially, thus ends two wasted years of bloated claims that Trump is a puppet in Putin’s pocket, taking instruction from Moscow in the most audacious corruption of a democracy in the history of democracy. No reasonable person can conclude that if Pelosi and the rest of her caucus thought they could prove collusion that they would not do so. They can’t. That is why, despite the current progressive winds and the bloviating of young representatives like Rashida Tlaib, who promised to “impeach the motherf-cker,” they will not actually be impeaching the motherf-cker.

Despite the merry band of socialists in Congress who want to scorch the earth beneath Trump, Pelosi, Schiff, and other relatively serious people understand that a kinda, maybe, sort of impeachment doomed to fail in the Senate would be a disaster. This is an admission that fantastical claims that Putin is calling the shots were little more than a 2018 midterm campaign slogan. It was successful, perhaps, but ultimately just not quite true.

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