Several leading Democratic lawmakers said Sunday that impeachment of President Trump must at least be considered on the basis of behavior detailed in the Mueller report, while the president’s allies pressed their contention that Trump was exonerated.
, redoubled his criticism of the president, saying the report depicted presidential conduct that was as bad as or worse than Watergate, the scandal that forced the resignation of President Nixon.
Nadler said he was puzzled by Mueller’s decision not to bring charges against the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., in connection with a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Kremlin-linked figures“I do not understand why he didn’t charge Don Jr. and others in that famous meeting with criminal conspiracy,” he said. “They entered into a meeting of the minds to attend a meeting to get stolen material on Hillary....They went to the meeting. That’s conspiracy, right there.
Schiff, interviewed on the same program, said it “may be” that Democrats will decide to begin impeachment proceedings, but acknowledged that conviction in the GOP-controlled Senate was unlikely because Republicans “are willing to carry the president’s water, no matter how corrupt or unethical or dishonest the president’s conduct may be.”
“We’re going to get into morality?,” Giuliani added rhetorically. “That isn’t what prosecutors look at.”“I think that shows that how toxic the politics are today, this win-at-all-costs attitude that the president has and his administration has,” said Ryan, who is part of a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls. “That's disgusting, to think that any major official, let alone someone so closely tied to the Trump administration, would think that that's a good idea.
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