No Trump Censure After Impeachment Acquittal

The Hill: Pelosi rules out censure after Trump acquittal

After the Senate voted to acquit former President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday ruled out censuring the former president — an idea that several Republicans had floated in recent days.

“Censure is a slap in the face of the Constitution. It lets everybody off the hook, it lets everybody off the hook,” Pelosi told reporters following the Senate impeachment trial at the Capitol.

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Update: Furious Nancy Pelosi crashes press conference to tear into Mitch McConnell, rage at 'cowardly' Republican senators for voting to acquit Trump - and shut down censure as a 'slap on the face of the Constitution' (Daily Mail).

WNU Editor: My suggestion is that they should move on (but they will not) .... Democrats wrestle with how to quit an acquitted Trump (Politico).