The Massachusetts senator, Elizabeth Warren has become the first 2020 election candidate to make a clear call for impeachment proceedings against the U.S President following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report. Warren tweeted that it would be damaging to ignore a president’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior and would allow future presidents to act in the same way. She added, “The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States”.
Mueller examined whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election. It is noteworthy whether Trump tried to interfere with the inquiry, made no clear verdict on obstruction of justice. His report did lay out 11 possible attempts to influence the investigation. He indicated the president was mostly unsuccessful due to his aides rejected to carry out orders. Other Democrats running in 2020 are more cautious on impeachment than Warren in their response to the publication. Julian Castro said it would be perfectly reasonable for the U.S Congress to open up those proceedings.
The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019
Both Jay Inslee of Washington and Eric Swalwell have recently launched presidential campaigns. They said that the idea shouldn’t be taken off the table. Democratic candidates, including senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, have suggested it was too soon to start impeachment proceedings. Booker said during a campaign stop in Reno, Nevada, “We don’t have an un-redacted version of the report. We don’t have the underlying materials that that report was written upon. We haven’t had yet an opportunity to have hearings where we interview Mueller”. Harris said on impeachment hearings, “I think that’s there definitely a conversation to be had on that subject, but first I want to hear from Bob Mueller and really understand what exactly is the evidence that supports the summary that we’ve been given”.