DRAFT
SUGGESTED STATEMENT OF SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
ABOUT WHY HOUSE IS IMPEACHING DONALD TRUMP
My fellow Americans,
I wish to explain to you why the United States House of Representatives is impeaching Donald Trump.
It is the constitutional duty of the President of the United States to obey the law and to serve the country's interests and not his personal interests.
Under the constitution, both the voters (through their voting power) and the Congress (under its impeachment power) have oversight power over whether the President is fulfilling his constitutional duty to obey the law and serve the country's interests and not his personal interests.
Deciding whether the President is obeying the law and serving the country's interests or his personal interests requires accurate information about what the President does and has done.
In the 2016 election, Donald Trump had no record as a governmental official for the voters to consider about whether Donald Trump would, as President, obey the law and serve the country's interests and not his personal interests.
In the 2016 election, the voters elected Donald Trump as President.
Donald Trump now has a 2-1/2 year record as President that can be considered for determining whether he has obeyed the law and has served the country's interests and not his personal interests.
In 2020 the voters will possibly have an opportunity to decide whether Donald Trump, as President, obeyed the law and served the country's interests and not his personal interests.
Deciding that, as I have said, depends on having accurate information about what Donald Trump has done as President.
The President has enormous power that he can use to prevent the voters from having accurate information about whether he has obeyed the law and served the country's interests and not his personal interests.
Under its impeachment and oversight powers, the Congress also has great power to get accurate information about whether the President has obeyed the law and has served the country's interests and not his personal interests.
The 2-1/2 year record of Donald Trump as President has raised very serious questions about whether he has obeyed the law and has served the country's interests and not his personal interests and about whether he has used his enormous power to prevent the voters and Congress from obtaining accurate information for deciding about the same.
So serious are the foregoing questions that House of Representatives has decided to is use its impeachment power to get accurate information both for Congress and for the voters.
The House of Representatives believes that it is its constitutional duty to do this.
The foregoing is my explanation, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, why the House is doing what it is doing.
We believe that the people agree that the President must obey the law and serve the country's interests and not his personal interests.
We believe that the people agree, or will agree, that accurate information is needed about whether the Donald Trump has obeyed the law and has served the country's interests and not his personal interests.
We believe that the people will understand the foregoing explanation of why the House of Representatives has decided to impeach Donald Trump.
