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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been claiming for over two years that President Donald Trump should be impeached from office.
But after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony was a total flop, Schumer is now admitting defeat.
As noted by The Hill, Schumer told reporters on Tuesday that he supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to wait on a formal impeachment inquiry until more evidence can be gathered.
“I believe that Speaker Pelosi is handling this appropriately,” Schumer said when asked if he planned to change his opinion on impeachment proceedings.
In other words, Schumer is admitting that Democrats don’t have the votes or evidence to impeach the president.
Adding even more hilarity to the entire thing, Schumer is hardly the first top Democrat running for the hills after Mueller’s testimony was a total dud.
During an interview last Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff admitted that Democrats have lost the battle on impeachment and implied they should wait until after the 2020 election before evaluating what to do next.
Schiff said “there is great weight” to the argument that impeaching Trump, but conceded that a failed impeachment fight could backfire badly on Democrats.
“I worry equally about the message of taking an impeachment case to trial, losing that case, having the president acquitted, and then having an adjudication that this conduct is not impeachable,” he said.
“The jury I’m most worried about, not the Senate because I think that’s a preordained conclusion, is the American people. Can we make the case to the American people? I want to make sure that’s true before we go down that path because it’s going to occupy a year of the nation’s time.”
Host Chuck Todd then asked: “Was there any part of Director Mueller’s testimony you found unsatisfying?”
Schiff slightly revealed his contempt and anger over Mueller not delivering Democrats the goods on impeachment.
“You know, look, I, I wish that he had testified in more narrative fashion, that the words didn’t need to be coaxed from him as much as they did,” Schiff said.
WATCH:
Schiff and many Democrats desperately hoped former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony last week would trigger an impeachment inquiry — but it completely backfired.
During his testimony before two House committees last Wednesday, Mueller seemed completely unaware of what his own Russia reported stated.
While speaking with one Republican lawmaker, Mueller got caught several times contradicting his own report.
Mueller came under fire for lying about why he decided not to charge the president with a crime.
After his testimony, President Trump dropped a bombshell that could potentially lead to Mueller behind bars.
Democrats are having a very difficult time with Trump in office, and they are losing control of their party.
And it’s clear that Democrats overplayed their hand with Mueller and thinking the ex-special counsel would help them impeach Trump.