House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, DN.Y., is pushing for President Trump to be impeached just days before his term ends, despite the warning years ago about “division and bitterness” during impeachment hearings Clinton in 1998.
“There should never be an impeachment voted for narrowly or an impeachment supported by one of our main political parties and against the other,” Nadler said when Clinton was in office.
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“Such an impeachment will produce division and bitterness in our policy in the years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions,” he said.
Nadler and his team released a report explaining why Trump “is not fit to stay in office for just one more day” on Tuesday.
“President Trump committed a high crime and misdemeanor against the Nation by inciting a Capitol insurrection in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Elections,” says the report.
The House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), attends a press conference on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Zach Gibson / Getty Images)
However, Nadler said that politically motivated impeachments “call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions” when President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, faced such a threat from House Republicans.
“The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of voters,” Nadler said on the floor of the House during Clinton’s impeachment hearings more than 20 years ago. “We must not overturn an election and remove a president from office, except to defend our system of government or constitutional freedoms against a terrible threat, and we must not do so without overwhelming consensus from the American people.”
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Nadler’s report comes as some Republicans, including the rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Support impeachment.
“Much more will become clear in the coming days and weeks, but what we know now is enough. The President of the United States has summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame for this attack. Everything that followed was his work.” Cheney said.
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Some pointed out that Nadler had a very different reaction when he conspired against the United States Capitol when he pressed for a pardon for former Weather Underground member Susan Rosenberg. In 1988, Rosenberg was accused of her role in the 1983 Senate bombing that killed no one but caused damage of approximately $ 250,000 (the charges were later dropped), according to Politico.
She was already in prison because of her connection to a robbery that resulted in the murder of two policemen and faced a 58-year sentence before being pardoned thanks to Nadler’s help, RealClear Politics reported.
Adam Shaw of Fox News contributed to this report.