Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Democrats are making a mistake by talking about impeaching President Trump in the absence of a final report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I think it’s a mistake to talk about impeachment,” he said on Fox News. “I think that we shouldn’t be politicizing it. If you put it in the discussion now, you are making something political.”
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“I think we have to be really careful and be very analytical about whatever evidence is there,” he added. “And it’s not there yet because the Mueller investigation really has to run its course and then you can make an evaluation.”
Some Democrats, like Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., have been pushing the idea of impeachment as a way to motivate Democrats to vote in November and give the House back to her party. But many Democratic leaders have downplayed that talk, and agreed with Kerry that there’s not enough information yet to take that step.
