Democrats Should Keep Impeachment Threat Hanging Over Trump
There's some leverage to be gained from the party's calls to impeach, and little to be lost as long as the speaker declines to proceed.
So this is what Damocles felt like.
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Impeachment talk is still increasing in the House of Representatives. Even though Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders believe the best weapons – at least for now – against Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice and abuses of power are continuing investigations and court actions outside of an impeachment context, Trump’s stonewalling has pushed more and more Democratic members of the House toward at least opening an impeachment inquiry. It’s also pushed one Republican, Michigan libertarian Justin Amash, to call for impeachment.
Indeed, some are arguing that Trump may be the one who wants impeachment – as a 2020 general election strategy.