DERRY, New Hampshire — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 Democratic candidate for president, swung through the Granite State on Saturday to meet with supporters at two separate stops and made it clear by the end of the day she was not running on impeaching the president.
Warren, a supporter of holding an impeachment inquiry and vote in lower chamber, said former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report showed that President Trump “obstructed justice.”
“I’m not running on impeachment. I didn’t expect to have to say anything about impeachment until the Mueller report came out. And I started that afternoon reading it. I read all into the night and into the early hours of the next morning, fell asleep, picked it up, and finished reading all four-hundred-and-forty-eight pages of it. When I got to the end, I knew three things,” she told the Washington Examiner following a rally on her second campaign stop.
“A hostile foreign government had attacked our 2016 election for the purpose of helping Donald Trump. Second, that Donald Trump as a candidate had welcomed that help. And third, that now as president, when the federal government tried to investigate those first two things, Donald Trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. That means it comes under the Constitution of the United States — to us — the Congress,” the Massachusets senator said.
She added, “And I believe that the case has been made fully in the Mueller documents. With footnotes and affidavits. It is time for us to begin impeachment proceedings. And we should have a vote in the house and then in the Senate. And let everyone to live with those votes for the rest of their lives.”
Mueller’s report, which did not establish that any American conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election, was the political focus on Capitol Hill last week when Mueller was brought before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees to testify.
