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Who Better Represents Americans on Impeachment, Nancy Pelosi—or Donald Trump?| Opinion

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Pelosi and others dismissed Trump’s threat to abandon bipartisan legislation if the investigations continue as it a temper tantrum. Maybe. Or maybe we it was an incredible act of political jujutsu.
Since the release of the Mueller Report House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s been straddling a thin tightrope, caught between most of her caucus, who want President Donald Trump removed from office through any means at their disposal, and most of America, which has grown tired of the whole thing.
Of late, the momentum has been shifting in Trump’s favor, making Pelosi’s challenge more difficult. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that post-report, the public’s attitude has shifted in his favor.
Prior to the release of Mueller’s findings, Rasmussen says, “a plurality of voters consistently believed President Trump should be impeached and removed from office.” Now, he says, those actions are backed by just 41 percent of those queried in his latest survey while 45 percent “disagree.” Nonetheless, the Democrats in Congress, with a wink and a nod from Pelosi, continue to plow ahead.
As of now, there are at least a dozen and probably more investigations into the president’s conduct, the findings of the Mueller Report, his business activities, and his tax records. He’s not far off the mark when he suggests this kind of scrutiny is unprecedented, at least in most of our lifetimes. And as he indicated Wednesday when he cut the rope out from underneath Pelosi, he’s fed up.
Instead of meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N. Y., at the White House to negotiate out a $2 trillion infrastructure package that could potentially put tens of thousands of Americans to work in good paying jobs, Trump went into the Rose Garden for an impromptu press conference. There he accused Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress of refusing to negotiate in good faith so long as they pursued their investigations of him, his businesses, and members of his family.

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