You Want To See Trump "In Prison", Not Destitute, Says Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the comment Tuesday night at a meeting with five committee chairs with investigative powers.

Washington:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is quick to stifle the impeachment speech in her democratic caucus, telling her colleagues that she wants to see President Donald Trump "in prison", but not dismissed and putting in before a contempt resolution to the Attorney General aimed at appeasing frustrated Democrats.

Pelosi, D-Calif., Told five of its committee chairmen Tuesday night during their weekly check-in on the status of investigations that she prefers to see Trump beat in 2020 and face charges of a crime after to have left office - that dismissed and acquitted by the Republican Senate.

"I do not want to see him deposed, I want to see him in prison," Pelosi said, according to officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share private conversations.

On Thursday, Pelosi's leadership team unveiled a promised resolution that will hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Donald McGahn in contempt. The measure would allow the Judiciary Committee of the House to go to court to force both to comply with Congressional summonses.

Pelosi's comments and the Outrage vote scheduled for Tuesday is an attempt by the President to appease some Democrats in the House who want to initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump. While the vote is likely to buy Pelosi more time on the impeachment, it is unlikely to stop the campaign for an investigation. Nearly 60 Democratic deputies have publicly expressed support for the impeachment, with 2020 presidential hopefuls putting pressure on Democratic deputies to act.

In private, Democrats say numbers in favor of impeachment are likely to increase.

The same is true of the tensions between Pelosi and some of the chairmen of his committees investigating Trump. MP Jerrold Nadler, D-N. Y., chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the chamber that has jurisdiction over the impeachment, Pelosi press to approve an impeachment investigation for several weeks.

Pelosi resisted, as she did at the Tuesday night meeting first reported by Politico. Nadler set out the legal justification for an investigation, as Commission staff and legislators argue that the opening of a formal procedure will only strengthen their legal capacity to require disclosure of documents and testimony.

But Pelosi replied that dismissal will cost his party politically. She urged the Democrats to focus on the legislative agenda that garnered them a majority in the mid-term elections last year, while calling for a methodical investigation into possible obstruction of justice by Trump described in the report of former Special Advisor Robert Mueller III.

Pelosi also suggested a need for greater public support for launching an impeachment investigation, noting that there is a common misconception that a president is immediately removed from office following dismissal by bedroom.

In excerpts from an interview with Fox News in France On Thursday, Trump stole Pelosi as "nervous Nancy."

"Nancy Pelosi is a disaster, OK?" Trump said in the interview scheduled for Thursday night's broadcast. "It's a disaster, let her do what she wants."

Asked about the dismissal during an appearance of MSNBC in France on Thursday, Pelosi said she would not discuss the subject at the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the invasion of the day.

Other Republicans criticized the president.

In a television interview on Thursday morning, White House spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp said Pelosi's comments about wanting to see Trump in jail were a reflection of a Democratic Party "obsessed with investigations. "

"I think this clearly shows the true colors of President Pelosi and the Democratic Party," Schlapp told Fox News.

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Also attacked Pelosi during a Thursday morning Fox News from the site of a ceremony in Normandy that he and Pelosi attended.

"At that time, we were not about the party," McCarthy said. "We were on the land, I hope we bring that back to Washington, not wanting to put anyone in jail but putting the Americans first."

Pelosi is less preoccupied with republican criticism than his own party. High-ranking Democrats hope the vote for contempt will give democrats in favor of dismissal a chance to look more favorably at their investigations and the Pelosi approach, officials said.

Divisions within democratic ranks have created an awkward dynamic. Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday night whether Pelosi and he were on the same wavelength during the dismissal, Nadler looked down, paused for a moment, then offered an answer that skirted the question.

"When the decision has to be made, it's not going to be taken by one person, it will probably be by the group as a whole," Nadler said. "Certainly, Nancy will have the biggest voice in her."

Pelosi's resistance infuriated the party's left flank, which used sharper language to criticize its direction in recent days. At a press conference on Wednesday, Pelosi rebuffed those who spoke against his approach.

"Do not get me wrong: We know exactly where we are," she says. "We know exactly what steps we need to take."

Last month, the Judicial Commission voted in favor of the parties to have Barr convicted of contempt of court for failing to submit to Mueller the full report of Mueller - which Barr argued because the publication of the grand jury documents would require a court order.

The committee also issued a summons for McGahn to deliver documents and testimonies about what he knew about Trump's alleged efforts to undermine justice. The White House prevented McGahn, who was a key witness in Mueller's report, from testifying, saying she planned to invoke executive privilege.