House Judiciary Chair Nadler: If Trump Is Not Impeached 'I Don't Know' If 2020 Will Be a ‘Fair Election’

Monica Sanchez | December 8, 2019
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday said that President Trump must be impeached because, if not, 2020 will not be a “fair election.”

When asked by host Chuck Todd whether the 2020 election would be fair if Trump was ultimately acquitted, Nadler replied, “I don’t know. The president, based on his past performance, he will do everything he can to make it not a fair election … And that is part of what gives us the urgency to proceed with this impeachment.” 

Nadler on Sunday insisted that there is “overwhelming evidence -- uncontested” that Trump "put himself before the country.”

"He put himself above the country, he sought to get foreign interference against the integrity of our election,” said Nadler. “This is a matter of urgency to deal with because we have to make sure the next election is conducted with integrity and without foreign interference.”

Nadler noted that his panel plans to “bring articles of impeachment presumably before the committee at some point later in the week.”  

As to whether the articles will cite the Mueller Report’s findings regarding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Nadler left the door wide open.

"I'm reserving judgment," he said.

As NBC reports, “Nadler's comments came as the House inquiry shifted into a new gear after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly directed committee chairmen last week to move forward to draft articles of impeachment against the president."

Pelosi last week when she announced that the House would be moving forward with articles of impeachment said dramatically that "civilization as we know it today is at stake in the next election, and certainly our planet."

When asked about what will happen if Trump gets re-elected, the House Speaker replied, "Let's not even contemplate that."

Impeachment hearings resume Monday with the House Judiciary Committee.

H/T RedState

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