Pelosi’s Green Light to an Impeachment Investigation Is a Sign of Weakness, Not Strength

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is surrounded by staff and journalists as she leaves the floor after the close of a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry against Republican President Donald Trump in Washington on Oct. 31, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Commentary

For most of 2019 Pelosi opposed impeaching the president. In March Pelosi opposed impeachment telling the Washington Post the action “is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.”