House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a news conference Thursday that she believes President Donald Trump “is almost self-impeaching” and argued that “he appears to be every time demonstrating more obstruction of justice and disrespect for Congress’ legitimate role in subpoenaing.”

The Speaker’s comments come amid an escalation of hostilities between congressional Democrats and the President one time after the home Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress.

Pelosi has argued in present weeks that the President is effectively developing a case on his own for impeachment by obstructing the work of Congress and has now started initially to make use of the term “self-impeach” to describe that.

In a Washington Post Live interview earlier into the week, Pelosi stated the President is “becoming self-impeachable in terms of some of the things that he’s doing.”

The House Speaker said on Thursday that she agrees with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler’s assessment that the united states have become in a “constitutional crisis.”

Pelosi and other Democratic congressional leaders have thereforetaken a cautious approach toward the potential for impeachment and possess downplayed the probabilities she and other Democrats describe as the administration’s stonewalling that it will happen, but Pelosi also appears to be increasingly frustrated with what.

The President and his allies argue that Democrats are targeting Trump for partisan reasons and not for legitimate oversight purposes and Trump has vowed to fight “all the subpoenas.”

Pelosi did not specify on Thursday when the full House will vote on whether to hold the attorney general in contempt, but she suggested that there may be “other contempt of Congress issues” that the House may want to cope with during the same time.

“In terms of timing, whenever we’re prepared, we’ll arrive at the floor, and we are going to see because there may be other contempt of Congress conditions that we want to deal with at the same time. In which he wishes to get it done right as possible and so do we,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi reiterated that impeachment would be a very divisive process for the country and argued that it’s not a binary choice to impeach or otherwise not to impeach.

“Sometimes individuals act as though it’s impeaching or nothing. It’s not that,” she said. “It’s a path that appears to be producing results and gathering information and some of that information is that this administration wants to have a constitutional crisis because they do not respect the oath of office that they take to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States … We won’t go any faster than the facts take us or any slower than the facts take us.”