At Omaha event, Pelosi says impeachment inquiry is about the Constitution
OMAHA "This is about our Constitution," Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Nebraska Democrats.
"About our Constitution and the facts."
The current House impeachment inquiry is "not about whether you like or disagree with" President Donald Trump, Pelosi told an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 Democrats who gathered in Omaha for the party's annual fundraising celebration on Saturday night.
"We take an oath to protect the USA from all enemies, foreign and domestic," Pelosi said.
And the time has come, she said, to recall Benjamin Franklin's words to a woman who inquired at the close of the constitutional convention of 1787 whether the framers had given Americans a republic or a monarchy.
"A republic, if you can keep it," Franklin responded.
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(Lincoln Journal Star)