‘Impeached Forever’ – Nancy Pelosi falsely claims that Trump wasn’t acquitted

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in denial that President Trump was acquitted of all charges from his impeachment trial. During an interview on Saturday night with CNN news anchor Christiane Amanpour in Germany, the speaker said that the President was not acquitted because she disapproved of the way the trial was conducted.

“You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can have a trial unless you have witnesses and documents. So he can say he is acquitted, and the headlines can say ‘acquitted,’ but he is impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated,” she said.

“Impeached forever,” seems to be Nancy’s new favorite catchphrase when it’s obviously not true. Anyone not inside the Democrats web of lies and deceit knows that Pelosi’s opinion on the President’s acquittal is irrelevant. She does not get to determine what is and what is not a fair trial in the Senate, or even what counts as an acquittal. Her second lie that there were no witnesses is categorically untrue. There were plenty of witnesses behind closed doors in the House’s impeachment sham and much of the testimony was given to the Senate.

What Speaker Pelosi really means is that she wanted a television spectacle, an ongoing trial where they could continue to try to damage the President’s 2020 prospects since both Pelosi and the Democrats knew they had zero chance of getting a two-third majority of the Republican Senate to vote for conviction. Saying the president has not been acquitted is as nonsensical as a prosecutor in a criminal trial saying the defendant “wasn’t really acquitted” after the jury read the verdict. If that was how things worked very few defendants would ever be acquitted.

The Constitution gives the House power to prosecute impeachment, and this is what the Democrats did in a highly partisan fashion. The constitution also gives the Senate power to have the trial to decide guilt or innocence which the Republican majority did — again in a highly partisan fashion. The impeachment process worked precisely as it was designed to work whether Speaker Pelosi liked that are not.