The Wall Street Journal accused congressional Democrats of conducting a “pseudo-impeachment” of President Donald Trump.
The newspaper’s comments came in an editorial published Wednesday.
“House Democrats are escalating their campaign against the Trump Administration with complaints that its resistance to congressional requests for documents is a threat to democracy,” the Journal said. “It’s more accurate to say that Democrats are performing what amounts to a pseudo-impeachment so they don’t have to undertake a real one.
“Democrats are agonizing over impeachment because while they’re itching to do it, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report blew up their Russian collusion hopes.”
The newspaper maintained Democrats are now “caught between a left-wing base that says they’ll abdicate their duty if they don’t impeach and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s cold-blooded calculation that it could cost their majority in 2020.”
The Journal claimed Democrats are committing the “real offense against the Constitution.” The newspaper said congressional oversight “can’t merely be a trawling exercise to see what nasty details they can find to score political points and discredit a president before the 2020 election.”
And the Journal noted that if Democrats really believe the president “is a threat to the Constitution, they should file articles of impeachment and have every member vote on them.”
“That’s the path of accountability,” the newspaper said. “The current pseudo-impeachment is a fraud on the Constitution and the American public.”
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