Pelosi lashes out at reporter amid delays in Senate impeachment trial
By Bob Fredericks, Aaron Feis and Ebony Bowden
New York Post
December 20, 2019 | 1:59pm
After pushing for months to impeach President Trump, Nancy Pelosi abandoned all urgency on Thursday, playing coy on when she would send the case to the Senate — where Republicans accused her of getting “cold feet.”
The Democratic speaker of the House took a victory lap for the passage of two articles of impeachment, but refused to actually say when — or even if — she would send them to the GOP-controlled Senate.
“We’ve been hearing from people all over the country since last night and this morning,” said Pelosi, of California, in a weekly press briefing.
“It seems like people have a spring in their step because the president was held accountable for his reckless behavior,” she gloated.
“I have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus.”
But, confronted with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s far dimmer view of the impeachment hearings as the “most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair” in modern history, Pelosi’s pre-Christmas cheer soured.
McConnell’s remarks, Pelosi said, “reminded me that our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president. I don’t think they suspected we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the Senate at the same time.”
When a reporter followed with, “To that end, you’re criticizing McConnell today …,” Pelosi cut off the inquiry and grew dour.
“Any other questions on any other things?” she testily asked reporters. “Anyone want to talk about the Mexico free trade agreement? Anybody care about that? Jobs for the American people? Progress in addressing globalism and the issues?
“Any other questions because I’m not going to answer any more questions on this,” she scolded.
