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Trump, Pelosi Taunt Each Other as Impeachment Trial Looms

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
   taunted each other Sunday as Trump's Senate impeachment trial looms in
   the days ahead.

   The U.S. leader called Pelosi, his chief impeachment antagonist in the
   Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, "Crazy Nancy," even
   before she told ABC News' This Sunday show that Trump is "impeached for
   life" no matter how his Senate trial plays out.

   The House last month approved two articles of impeachment against Trump
   linked to his efforts to get Ukraine to launch investigations to
   benefit himself politically -- that he abused the office of the
   presidency and then obstructed congressional efforts to investigate his
   Ukraine-related actions.

   But Pelosi for three weeks has balked at sending the articles of
   impeachment to the Senate in a futile effort to get Senate Republican
   leader Mitch McConnell, a staunch Trump ally supporting his acquittal,
   to agree to hear key Trump aides testify at the Senate trial about the
   president's actions and subpoena White House documents.

   The House leader is consulting with her Democratic colleagues Tuesday
   about the timing of sending the impeachment articles to the Senate, but
   is planning on naming a handful of lawmakers to press the case against
   Trump. If that happens, the Senate trial could start later in the week.

   Pelosi warned the majority Senate Republicans, some of whom have sought
   to quickly acquit Trump without hearing new witnesses, that history
   would judge them harshly if they do not conduct an extensive
   impeachment trial, only the third such time in the country's 244-year
   history that a president has faced an impeachment trial and possible
   removal from office.

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