Impeachment Theater Could Not Have Gone Worse For Democrats By Mollie Hemingway

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 Impeachment Theater Could Not Have Gone Worse For Democrats

Since removal was never a realistic outcome, impeachment was about harming Trump in an election year. By that standard, it could not have gone worse.

By Mollie Hemingway
February 5, 2020

Democrats’ impeachment effort was never about removing President Donald Trump from office. If it had been, it would not have been rushed through the House of Representatives without a proper predicate or investigation.

No reasonable person expected the Republican-controlled Senate to remove a sitting president for anything Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly alleged, no matter how unfairly he characterized Trump’s thoughts, words, or actions.

Impeachment was about satisfying the corporate media and Democratic base that had demanded it for years. And since removal was never a realistic outcome, it was about harming Trump in an election year.

By that standard, it could not have gone worse. Here are three ways that Pelosi’s gambit backfired bigly.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/05/impeachment-theater-could-not-have-gone-worse-for-democrats/

[PeteS in CA]

I'm not sure harming Trump was a realistic goal, either. I'm inclined to think that the crazies' clamor combined with Pelosi's Trump-Hatred to induce Pelosi to do something she knew was foolish. About all the Dems got for our trouble was a pause in the confirmation process of Trump's judicial nominees (some 30, until Trump nominated 4 more).