Eli Lake, Columnist

Why Trump Relishes the Upcoming Impeachment Battle

The president is lucky that his would-be impeachers have their own credibility issues.

September 25, 2019 at 12:15 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Not a man worried about impeachment.
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The allegation that President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s new leader to bully him into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden was too much. After months of warning her fellow Democrats about the perils of impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has changed her mind.

At this moment, a normal president would tread lightly. Impeachment hearings and a Senate trial are not ideal in an election year.