Must be hard to be Maxine Waters, trying to keep her story straight. Remember this?

Apparently, she doesn't. Recently, she was on MSNBC being interviewed about the Russian hacking scandal, when she expressed that the United States government should be looking to any ties between Donald Trump and Russia.

"Should we wait to call for impeachment until we have the answers to those questions?" the MSNBC host asked.

"I have not called for impeachment," she said, indignantly.

"You said, 'I am going to fight every day until he's impeached,' that's what you tweeted," he responded.

Literally twenty seconds prior to this exchange, MSNBC had flashed her tweet on everyone's television. You might think that it's hard to deny that she called for impeachment when her very own tweet had just been displayed, right? Well, that's because you're no politician, my friend. Waters didn't miss one beat.

"Here's what I said," she retorted. "We need the information, we need to connect the dots. We need the facts in order to do the impeachment. And I'm going to work every day to try and help get those facts and to reveal them to the public until impeachment has taken place."

Hum... You'd think if she was dedicating herself to the cause of "impeachment," she'd know how it actually works. Columbia Law School's professor of legislation Richard Briffault explained the process to Business Insider:

The process would begin in the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives acts like a grand jury. It has the sole power to start an impeachment. They can do that by a simple majority vote.

They would, in effect, adopt articles of impeachment. They would adopt some number of relatively specific charges that they say is the basis that would justify forcing a president or a judge to forfeit their office.

That would then proceed to the Senate. The impeachment is actually what the House of Representatives does. The conviction is by, would be by the Senate. And the Senate acts as the court, to try the impeachment.

In other words, Maxine Waters can "work every day" to "get facts" until "impeachment has taken place," but her saying Trump should be impeached is not going to cut it. (Or, her not saying he should be impeached, depending on her story at the moment.)

h/t Pajama Media

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