Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that Democrats should stop conducting obstruction investigations into President Trump.
The Kentucky Republican, appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” blamed politics for special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment and the subsequent push for further insight into his findings.
“I think since the very beginning this all has been politically motivated. Now both sides are doing it. I think it goes back even to the Clintons,” Paul said. “This why we shouldn’t have special prosecutors.
“One of the things that Adam Schiff and the other partisans don’t understand is that if you’re accused of a crime by the grand jury and they don’t indict you, the prosecutor doesn’t go all over town saying we thought he did this, we thought he did this, this is all the evidence. That’s why a grand jury is secret,” he added.
Paul called the inquiries “absurd” and said that Congress should just move on from the matter.
“The bottom line is, we spent $35 million investigating the president. Their conclusion was that there was no underlying crime,” Paul said.
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