Why Pelosi’s Won Not Just the Articles of Impeachment Battle, But the Election Too

Andy Ostroy
3 min readJan 9, 2020

When it comes to Donald Trump’s impeachment trial there’s the Court of Kangaroo and the Court of Public Opinion. Guess which one has tens of millions of voters?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s been standing firm in her strategy since mid-December of not sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Republican-controlled Senate until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees to a fair trial with key direct evidence and witnesses. It’s been a bitter standoff, but Pelosi and Democrats are the clear winners.

To be sure, there’s only one party desperately trying to get to the truth, and another that’s desperately trying to hide it. And let’s face it, no one works so hard to obstruct…so hard to conceal…so hard to manufacture conspiracies to distract from the truth…if they’re innocent.

Consider what McConnell declared in December:

“I’m coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this…”

“I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There is not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision.”

Think about that. The individual who’s Constitutionally mandated with conducting…

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Andy Ostroy

Director, producer, podcaster, writer, resistor, non-profit-supporter of women filmmakers