Top House Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told Yahoo News that pursuing the impeachment of President Trump is “extremely premature,” but there is still a possibility Democrats could seek to oust the president.
“It’s off the table until it’s on the table. And at the moment it’s off the table,” Jeffries said.
“As Speaker Pelosi has indicated we should only go down that road if the case is compelling, the evidence is overwhelming, and the public sentiment around impeachment is bipartisan in nature,” Jeffries said. “Those conditions don’t exist right now.” Jeffries compared their situation to the Biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, three men thrown into a furnace on A king’s order when they refused to worship a false idol. “Sometimes you’ve got such an arrogant, narcissistic, self-centered, out of control ruler that the people closest to him are the first ones to go down in flames,” Jeffries said.
Late last month, Trump declared himself exonerated after Attorney General William Barr released a letter summarizing Mueller’s report. According to Barr, Mueller did not find evidence Trump’s campaign team had colluded with Russian attempts to interfere with the election and declined to make a decision whether the president should be charged with obstruction of justice.
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