Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted during a recent interview that she doesn’t believe her party should be chomping at the bit to impeach President Donald Trump in the next two years.
Pelosi, who presided over the House through two impeachments during Trump’s first term, argued that in 2019 and 2020, the Democrats had a solid reason for moving ahead with impeachment — and that there was no obvious reason to impeach him based on his actions in his second term.
Pelosi delivered her assessment during an appearance on the USA Today podcast “The Excerpt” with Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, and Page asked whether she would be behind a third impeachment effort if Democrats were to regain control of the House after the 2026 midterm elections.
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“Just to make sure I understand you, [impeachment] should not be the agenda of Democrats for this last two years,” Page prompted the California lawmaker.
Pelosi, who just recently announced that she will not seek reelection in 2026, confirmed Page’s suspicions.
“No, I mean unless he — if he crosses the border again. But that’s not an incidental thing you say — ‘We’re going to do that.’ No, there has to be cause,” Pelosi said. “There has to be reason.”
“We had review. This was a very serious historic thing,” Pelosi continued. “And our founders knew that there could be a rogue president. And that’s why they put impeachment in the Constitution.”
Pelosi went on to take potshots at Senate Republicans, blaming them for the fact that neither of Trump’s impeachments had been able to get across the finish line to conviction in the Senate — or removal from office, which appeared to be the end goal.
“[The founders] didn’t know there’d be a rogue president at the same time a rogue Senate that didn’t have the courage to do the right thing. It was bipartisan in the Senate, but it wasn’t enough,” she complained.
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