Posted on 03/24/2019 10:49:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At long last, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his report to the attorney general. What does that mean for Congress — and the question of impeachment?
For 21 months, leaders of both parties have found one consistent area of agreement: the ongoing Mueller investigation provided a convenient excuse to duck, deflect, and delay discussion of impeachment. With each new revelation of impeachable conduct, the bipartisan response from Congress has been that impeachment talk was “premature” until the Mueller report was complete.
That excuse is now gone. The question is whether the House of Representatives will begin an impeachment investigation, or manufacture a new excuse.
There has never been a principled reason to wait. Even aside from the matters covered by Mueller investigation, there have long been ample independent grounds for an impeachment investigation in parallel with the Mueller probe. For example, since the day he took office, Trump has been lining his pockets with federal taxpayer dollars and unconstitutional payoffs from dubious foreign governments. The Framers specifically named that an impeachable offense. He has repeatedly directed federal agencies to target his political “enemies list.” That was part of the articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. And, appearing under the stage name of “Individual-1,” Trump directed his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to make illegal payments to influence the 2016 election — a federal crime for which Cohen will report to prison in less than two months.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
We are getting a good start here!
If they have any evidence of an impeachable crime then they should have given it to Mueller... That’s exactly the kind of thing that he’s been looking for for the last two years.
“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”
Prometheus in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Masque of Pandora”.
It’s Boston for goodness sakes. They have to keep their readers happy.
Dems.. just Throwing bullshit against the wall hoping something will stick
When all they have is a choice of two crap sandwiches, they dig their fingers in and squeeze them sammiches for all they’re worth...and that is exactly all they’re worth....must suck really bad to be them these days....
I’ve been watching (on Discovery ID channel) Lt. Joe Kenda, and I must quote him here:
“These guys are morons. They couldn’t organize a trip to the bathroom.”
Actually for Trump, it’s Miller time.
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