Former US attorney: Trump can’t be impeached for using constitutional powers

Published April 20, 2019 4:38pm ET



Former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy said Saturday that President Trump cannot be charged with obstructing justice for exercising his presidential powers.

The conservative commentator said Trump’s actions are only impeachable if it can proved that they represented a gross abuse of power, and there is not enough to indicate that actions laid out in the Mueller report fall outside the president’s constitutional powers.

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