Holding on to the articles of impeachment will be known as “one of the greatest political mistakes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ever made,” former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told Fox News over the weekend.
“When you have the momentum of impeachment because your party earnestly believes in it and thinks it's the right thing to do, and it's urgent that they remove the president from power because the peril he presents, and then you sit on it, all you're doing is showing that this was a hollow exercise all along,” Fleischer said.
He stressed that the entire process of impeachment is “ending now with a thud,” explaining that Democrats “don't even want to move it over to the Senate because they want to use it for some type of leverage. And there is no leverage to be had on this because it was a waste of time when it began. Now it's even more of a waste of time.”
Fleischer said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should also delay the trial and embarrass the Democrats by scheduling it “to begin 10 days before the Iowa caucus and run right through the New Hampshire primary.”
When asked to explain why the USMCA trade deal came up for a vote immediately after the impeachment vote, Fleischer said Pelosi was getting pressure from more moderate elements in her party “to get something done, and so she held it in her pocket.”
But Fleischer said the Democrats' decision was “not big enough to cover up the blemish of impeachment,” explaining that since Democrats took the House in the midterms, they “are going to been known for one thing, and that was wasting the nation's time with an impeachment.”
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