She said "He's been impeached forever. They can never erase that."
However, Pelosi has it exactly backward. The Senate is going to refuse to convict President Trump. He will be exonerated, and she and the Democrats will be condemned by history.
The wide repudiation of the House Democratic betrayal of the Constitution is already beginning. As a historian myself, I think it's important to document these reactions.
Consider historian Victor Davis Hanson's analysis for the National Review, which was subtitled: "The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability."
This is hardly an endorsement of Pelosi's trivialization of the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln scholar and highly respected historian Allen Guelzo asserted in The Wall Street Journal:
When Interviewed by Arun Rath, Harvard law professor and ACLU liberal Alan Dershowitz commented:
As former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy pointed out on Fox News, the Pelosi strategy is simply to "bruise President Trump with an unending stream of new impeachment allegations" in order to hurt his chances at re-election. McCarthy added, "[a]fter over 230 years, we have entered the era of partisan impeachment that the Framers feared. This is what it looks like."
So, McCarthy sees Pelosi behaving in exactly the unconstitutional and narrowly partisan manner the writers of the Constitution hoped to avoid. Again, it is Pelosi – not Trump – who is undermining the Constitution.
As former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy pointed out on Fox News, the Pelosi strategy is simply to "bruise President Trump with an unending stream of new impeachment allegations" in order to hurt his chances at re-election. McCarthy added, "[a]fter over 230 years, we have entered the era of partisan impeachment that the Framers feared. This is what it looks like."
So, McCarthy sees Pelosi behaving in exactly the unconstitutional and narrowly partisan manner the writers of the Constitution hoped to avoid. Again, it is Pelosi – not Trump – who is undermining the Constitution.
In addition, The New York Post's editorial board noted that "Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff has been lying to the world for years in his nonstop campaign to smear President Trump." Their judgement is that it is Schiff – and not Trump – who has been a continuous serial liar.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board summarized the disaster of Pelosi's bid to delay sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, saying her move "further exposes how Democrats have defined impeachment down. The House hearings blocked GOP witnesses and limited cross-examination. Despite selective leaks and a pro-impeachment media, they failed to move public opinion or persuade Republicans that Mr. Trump committed impeachable offenses."
The WSJ editorial board went on to call Democrats' actions "an abuse of the impeachment power" and reiterated that the things alleged in the Articles of Impeachment "aren't close to impeachable."
Madison Gesiotto in the Hill called this "the flimsiest and most partisan impeachment in history."
In fact, as Pelosi played games with appointing managers, even senior Democrats began to lose patience. "The longer it goes on the less urgent it becomes," Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told reporters. "If it is serious and urgent, send them over. If it is not, do not send it over."
Republican Senator Susan Collins suggested that the delays were wrong. As she put it, "[d]oesn't that suggest that the House did an incomplete job, then?"
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell neatly summarized the Democrat House-created calamity in his floor statement on Thursday, saying "[i]t was a transparently partisan performance from beginning to end."
McConnell went on to remind the country of the Founding Fathers' fears of exactly the kind of narrow bitter partisanship Pelosi has been displaying. Paraphrasing Hamilton, McConnell warned that "blinded by factionalism, the House of Representatives would abuse the power of impeachment to serve nakedly partisan goals rather than the long-term interests of the American people and their Republic."
Finally, it's clear the House Democrats have failed utterly to live up to the standard of prosecution set out by former Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (who served as chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials). Jackson cautioned the Conference of United States Attorneys on April 1, 1940:
The judgement of history is going to be that a group of scoundrels in control of the US House of Representatives placed partisan interests above the country, undermined the Constitution, weakened America in the world, and lied about the duly elected President of the United States.
This will become Pelosi's moment of shame, and Trump's moment of redemption.
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Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) is a former Georgia Congressman and Speaker of the U.S. House. He co-authored and was the chief architect of the "Contract with America" and a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections. He is noted speaker and writer. This commentary was shared via Gingrich Productions.
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