Sen. Mazie Hirono, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, agreed with some of the Democratic presidential candidates that President Trump should be prosecuted after he leaves office.
“You know, when I look at the 800 or so former prosecutors who said there’s enough in the Mueller report to indict the president, were it not for the fact that he’s a sitting president, I’d say that is grounds for those kinds of further actions,” the Hawaii Democrat said during a Wednesday interview on MSNBC.
“In addition, the other investigations that are going on regarding the president’s activities in his organizations should also continue, including the state of New York, the prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, all of those kinds of activities should go on. So, yes, he needs to be held accountable,” she said.
2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said if she becomes president, she would have “no choice” but to have the Department of Justice charge Trump.
“There has to be accountability,” she said. “I mean look, people might, you know, question why I became a prosecutor. Well, I’ll tell you one of the reasons — I believe there should be accountability. Everyone should be held accountable, and the president is not above the law.”
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said, “To the extent that there’s an obstruction case, then yes, DOJ’s got to deal with it.”
