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    Nancy Pelosi once resisted impeachment; now it shapes her legacy

    by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Dec 18, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - When Nancy Pelosi first held the speaker's gavel in 2007, liberals in her caucus wanted to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. Pelosi resisted.

    More than a decade later, the San Francisco Democrat returned to the speaker's rostrum with a new Democratic majority, hearing similar calls to impeach a Republican president.

    This time, too, she resisted for months. But President Donald Trump, she insists, left her no choice.

    Trump's offenses, she said in an interview Tuesday in the speaker's office, justified impeachment in a way Bush's had not.

    "What could be worse than that? Misrepresenting to the public what the basis of the war was," Pelosi said. But, she continued, Trump's efforts to enlist a foreign government, Ukraine, in domestic U.S. politics, asking the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump's Democratic rivals, "is so overwhelming that for us to not do this would be

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