Pelosi Sets High Bar for Impeachment Inquiry: Ironclad Proof
- Speaker says call drove decision on impeachment probe vote
- Pelosi says Trump call undermined separation of powers
Nancy Pelosi during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, Nov. 1.
Photographer: Kholood Eid/BloombergHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, offering her most expansive view of the impeachment probe to date, said she decided to advance the inquiry into President Donald Trump after his phone call with Ukraine’s leader provided her with the “clarity” that prior allegations against Trump lacked.
Pelosi said the partial transcript of Trump’s July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stood in sharp contrast to the less clear-cut allegations in Robert Mueller’s special counsel report. That phone call -- where Trump is heard urging Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden -- was a “bombshell” that peeled away her initial reluctance to take the politically divisive step.