Nancy 'goes right' to outflank Trump at yesterday's House vote on impeachment of the president. It won't work as its ostensibly designed to, but it might in a roundabout way...
Last night, the House voted along party lines to impeach Trump, a partisan move that enables Democrats to continually undermine and discredit Trump as the "impeached President."
However, with the effort virtually guaranteed to fall flat in the Senate, Democrats are planning to delay and drag the process in yet another underhanded stunt.
Following the impeachment vote, Pelosi said she would withhold the articles of impeachment until the Senate makes rules that she determines will be "fair" to the prosecution.
The Conservative Treehouse blog describes this as a "cunning Lawfare ploy" that was a "pre-planned procedural process by design."
"Now the delay in sending the articles of impeachment allows the House lawyers to gather additional evidence while the impeachment case sits in limbo."
"The House essentially blocks any/all impeachment activity in the Senate by denying the transfer of the articles from the House to the Senate. Additionally, the House will now impede any other Senate legislative action because the House will hold the Senate captive. Meanwhile the Democrat presidential candidates can run against an impeached President."
This additional evidence could include Mueller grand jury material, a deposition by former White House counsel Don McGahn and less Trump's financial and tax records.
Knowing that the Senate will never vote to impeach Trump, Democrats plan to use the House impeachment vote as yet another tool with which to undo the results of the 2016 election, keeping Trump under a permanent cloud of suspicion right through 2020.
Comment: To be clear, they won't be 'gathering evidence' for the purpose of actually strengthening their chances of Trump being impeached (because they have nothing, and they know it). Instead, they will be pretending to 'gather evidence' so that as many headlines as possible with 'Trump impeachment' in them can be generated for as long as possible through 2020, an election year.
What they may also do, in parallel, is cook up something more 'sensational' than 'withholding military aid to Ukraine' as 'evidence' of Trump's 'malfeasance', but its purpose won't be to support the formal legal proceedings, but to convince the minds of the general public in 'trial by media' that Trump really is 'Orange Man Bad'.
This is all designed to influence voters to not vote for Trump next November. Their plan will likely fail, but you never know; populations do succumb to heavy, targeted infowar campaigns of repetitive media lies...