By Rachael Bade and Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow Chelsea Janes Chelsea Janes Reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign Email Bio Follow April 18 at 7:56 PM Top congressional Democrats said Thursday that President Trump obstructed justice in trying to undermine the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and promised a thorough investigation. But party leaders — and even 2020 presidential candidates — stopped short of calling for impeachment.
Hoyer, however, later told CNN that “based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point. Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgment.” “No collusion! No obstruction!” said Rep. Jim Jordan , the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee. “Complete cooperation from the president. No executive privilege asserted.”
On Thursday, Democrats latched onto Mueller’s report to argue the special counsel never intended for Barr to make a decision on obstruction but wanted Congress to take up the question. Rep. Jamie B. Raskin argued that impeachment is but one of the functions of Congress, which is also responsible for passing legislation, particularly Democratic priorities of tougher gun control and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
Despite the uncertainty surrounding impeachment, Democrats vowed to continue investigating the president. Nadler, who notably did not rule out the possibility of impeachment proceedings during a news conference Thursday afternoon, insisted that Mueller should testify “no later than May 23” before his committee.
Democrats 'say'...They can say whatever they want.People have their own opinion.
President Trump is and will be the greatest Commander & Chief ever 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
When asked why, this was the response
It's time to find a better soulution...
News Flash to dems, one word, Hillary!! Do you think for one mynute of a second, if this was a democrat these demonic bast*** wouldn't be asking for the electric chair, let alone impeachment....Its so true, liberals are nothing but cowards. Afraid to piss of the Trump nuts.
What to expect the traitors to say? They attempted to overthrow the duly elected President with their hoax. The left made false accusations and undermined the US for over two years and now claim the accused obstructed justice? Why because their hoax didn't work as planned?
Uh duh, nobody needed the Mueller report to know absolutely that Trump obstructed justice or that he colluded/conspired with Russia, HE FUCKING TOLD ALL OF YOU ON NATIONAL TV ! ' I fired Comey because of the Russia thing ' ....... are Americans this stupid ? Really ?
Mueller and TEAM..need be in next week...
It’s sad that the Democrats are wishing they can impeach Trump and it’s not going happen FISA will bring down the HOUSE
Barry obstructed justice w/the ACA- Hillary obstructed justice &took Saudi money to fund herself- Clinton screws an intern &everyone forgets he inhaled pelooozer cant keep her story straight AOC can’t speak adult Trump brings up job market, fights 4border &knows his enemy justice
The power struggle is in the USA. It was the same after Stalin's death in the USSR. Now the USA is the embodiment of the most terrible dictatorship, which falsely calls itself democracy.
I re-read The Constitution, Article 2, Section 4. It didn’t say anything about avoiding impeachment proceedings leading up to elections. Remember how y’all emphasized the SHALL but with Mnuchin? Yeah, it’s in Art2,Sec4... SHALL.
The communist democrat party has no candidates for president
Hopefully, they just want to proceed according to the law and in an orderly fashion. Hear from Mueller and then Impeach. I hate to say this, but. N Pelosi was right to wait.
You just know Nadler's high school nick name was Nads.
What I learned after all this, impeachment is only for democrats, republicans have immunity. And that blowjobs is more impeachable than collusion, working with spies and corruption. Yeah got it! What a whack world we live in.
Democrats say planes are not safe, and fly out on another overseas holiday. Democrats will wake up one day and find they have done nothing other than hate-Trump for 2 years.
Because...?
Insufficient evidence for obstruction of justice. No collusion
THERE IS NO INTENT.....NO INTENT.....NO INTENT!
This isn't Seinfeld, don't stop short!
There’s nothing there. Give it up!
Why won’t you Democrats do anything about getting rid of Trump. What are you afraid of.
Really bad move. Your voters want justice, not mealy mouth amoebas who can’t stand up for our democracy. SenateDems DNC
Bc he didn’t obstruct....? There was no collusion..🤔🤔....what did he obstruct?
Second guessing polls and twiddling thumbs is tantamount to supporting his horrific presidency. Rule number 1. Remove him!
Any and all lawful actions to remove the horror and danger of Trump should be actioned on a 24/7 basis until he's removed. Anything less only conflicts with America's rich history of greatness.
Gee. I wonder why. Maybe because there's no proof? If there was they'd be lining up to impeach. Now come on. Get over it. It's over. Move on.
SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer HouseDemocrats TheDemocrats SenateDems & why is that
Then do something nadler. Words are words. You’re all talk no action. Because you’re a p*ssy and you know it
Because they know he didn’t. And they don’t want to admit to their base that they knew this was a hoax from the start. Keep crying those liberal tears people 😂😂
It’s time for impeachment! Democrats, grow the balls that the GOP does not have!
Trump 2020!
High crimes and misdemeanors are all over this report. The constitution and our democracy deserve an impeachment proceeding as a minimum for the treason and failure to protect and defend our laws as required by his oath of office.
Get Mueller to testify first and it would be great to have Stone going down. But even then, can't expect these crooks in the senate to actually charge the scumbag.
the GOP senate will never convict him so what is the point of the house impeaching trump?
Corporate hacks
Can’t call for impeachment because they have no evidence of obstruction. Just trying to keep some kind of narrative open on this for campaign season.
Please try to impeach. Please. It will guarantee complete control by the GOP for the next decade.
Nothing to impeach him over. Y'all lied and went all drama and have nothing to show for it. A fake news dead end. Curses, foiled again!!
Nadler should be investigated and charged to the fullest extent of the law, which he does not know. How can democrats these stupid people?
A personalized background, impressed with his shrunken self...
Impeach.
Proves how pathetic they and their case are
ImpeachTrump
We all need to call our representatives tomorrow and demand that they begin impeachment investigations. ImpeachTrump
If they had proof they’d impeach.
Impeach. Removal is irrelevant. Use impeachment proceedings to get all the information and make the extent of corruption in this admin public.
Muller gave you Dems a bone. Go for it spend the next two years chasing a losing bone While Trump wins the next election.
TabberAnn Tonight and Peach is a complete and total dereliction of your duties and a violation of the earth you took to protect our country and defend our Constitution against 'all enemies both foreign and domestic' and do your damn job
TabberAnn If you people do not impeach this man with what we now know for sure that he has done then you can forget about getting my vote
Democrats say a lot of stupid and false things. They’ve been lying to the American people for over 2 years about their Russia-Trump theory. The Mueller Report irrefutably EXONERATES President Trump; NO COLLUSION & NO OBSTRUCTION. It’s time to investigate the false accusers.
RussiaHoax
Need more evidence. Need the full Mueller report.
How can you obstruct justice if there’s nothing to obstruct?
They don’t have a shot at impeachment. They will never get enough Republicans on board for a majority vote in the Senate. All we can do to save democracy and our country is to vote this fat corrupt bastard out of office November 2020.
Dems to Dem voters
And yet if Mueller was confident he did obstruct justice he would have said that as well. Way to spin as usual Snowflakes.
Waste at this point. Election for '20 will be over by the time everything is done with an impeachment proceeding.
Hey WP just cause a Demi says it doesn’t make it truth. Hildabeast said she did nothing wrong with the emails but we all know that was a lie & don’t forget tricky willie said he didn’t bang Monica another lie So what can we learn from this Demi’s r just as big if not bigger liars
Trump obviously was trying to obstruct the resurrection of the Democrats Salem witch trials.
For now.
ImpeachTheMF!
A special council investigated Clinton on White Water. He ended up being impeached over a BJ. So yeah, Trump acted rationally.
They had better do their jobs. They’re not being paid to get re-elected.
Impeachment or don't expect to be reelected.
Stop the madness move on
If the Democrats don’t act, Trump surely will, moving forward with his false claims that it was a “witch-hunt” and he was exonerated!
Go ahead. Try it. We will enjoy watching you set yourself on fire.
Not even the Democrats in Congress can accuse Trump while he is president but they can impeach him and the sooner the better don't waste the time Act Now
Yawn!
HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED. YOU CANNOT SCREAM JUSTICE AND THEN BACK OFF FOR POLITICAL REASONS
😂😂😂 Go ahead and impeach! Isn’t that what you guys have been screaming for!!! 😂😂😂. LOSERS
IMPEACH
Mueller said otherwise by failing to indict.
Is that why they’re putting together impeachment 🙄
Yes try and sale the he committed obstruction of a crime that wasn’t committed bullshit.
Our elected officials cannot look away when their are incidents of obstruction and conspiracy as detailed in the Mueller report... it is required by the oath they took upon taking office that they uphold and defend the constitution. impeach
Now, lets look at Hillary smashing away her servers
Basically everything Trump did and everyone that was dismissed or resigned after he said “I’m Fucked,” basically brings it all together. Now we know why there was so much turnover. The man was desperate and the erratic behavior proved it.
Silver lining: Get rid of the Republicans majority in the Senate asap! That's the only hope to RESTORE the nation back to its greatness. Only idiots would not be able to see that Trump is a cancer that serves foreign enemies at the detriment of America!
Nancy said no and she’s the boss. She also knows a loser when she sees one.
Trump may not be worth impeachment but the Office of the Presidency is certainly worth the effort.
This is getting good. Democrats are committing 2020 suicide if they move forward with impeachment proceedings. This investigation has turned into a disaster for them, and it is not even remotely motivating for the voting base. Only the Democrats could lose to Trump twice.
A failed
'We set out to destroy Trump, but instead we must settle for just being mad at him..'
Barr, Rosenstein and Mueller disagree. 😄😄😄😄
Congress at this point has to impeach the President. The report shows he obstructed justice, lie to to the American people, witness tampering to name a few. It will be a mistake for Congress not impeach. It’s not about politics anymore or should it be about polictics.
Congress must do their constitutional duty
Obstruction is a crime, Trump wasn't charged with a crime. Remember, they just did a 2 investigation, and released the report today
Weakness arouses evil
This is not going to go over well with the voter base.
You should characterize this as 'elected Democrats' because most of us unelected Democrats want impeachment.
Impeachment will back fire. just suck it up for 18 more months and focus on winning independents and moderates
They just did!
Congress may not call for impeachment but they must come up with a sanction that will prevent any President, either this one or others to come from doing even worse. What could that sanction be?
They're not doing their job if they read Mueller report & don't call for impeachment. ImpeachmentHearings need to be held.
a completed probe with no underlying crime aren't the ingredients for obstruction of justice.
Obstruct what justice? No crime you can't obstruct if there nothing to obstruct!
Democrats said there was Russian collusion, no credibility this is not news
Obstruction of a witch hunt isn't a crime. NoCollusion
Why not? If they are so sure of what they have been claiming for the last 700 days in a row then what is the problem?
Democrats wasted 2 years on the Russian hoax!
Democrats SAY a lot of stuff. Try to ignore it.
It's all over but the crying.
The investigation says otherwise and there r no grounds
We need to impeach or just take the provision out of the constitution.
What part of Trump's 'I'm fucked' statement caused the Democrats to pause in their call for impeachment? Seriously.
Huh Who says that IMPEACH HIM NOW!!!
That is why Dems need new leadership at the top and start the Impeachment 😠
Of note: It's been exactly three months since Mueller disputed the Buzzfeed bombshell
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