The idea comes down to a technicality: Because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not transmitted the two articles of impeachment to the Senate, Trump officials may claim that the process has not yet been finalized in the House
Nothing ever happened. Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Denial can be an ill-advised, if effective, strategy for temporary coping over the holidays, and it’s one that the White House is reportedly contemplating as part of its impeachment messaging.
. The argument emerges from an op-ed by Harvard Law professor and House Judiciary Impeachment witness Noah Feldman. “If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president,” Feldman, who has endorsed Trump’s impeachment and removal from office, wrote in Bloomberg. “If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all.
Because it rests on a delay in the process, the nascent “impeachment hasn’t happened” defense isn’t as concerning as other administration denials of basic truths — like in September when the president drew on a map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to prove his false statement that Alabama was in the potential path of Hurricane Dorian.
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