Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., predicted Democrats will “stampede” to impeach President Trump after special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was released last week.
“I thought we all trusted Mueller. So here’s what I think is going on in the House: There’s going to be a stampede to impeach President Trump,” Graham said during a Monday evening interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “They’re going to use the Mueller report and anything they can find to try to destroy his presidency. Nancy Pelosi is not in charge of the Democratic Party — the radical left is in charge.”
“I expect that there will be impeachment proceedings against President Trump,” Graham said, adding that he believed the Mueller reported was “vindication” for Trump. Ultimately, Graham said impeachment proceedings would lead to Trump’s reelection in 2020.
“The media isn’t covering the @realdonaldtrump presidency, they’re trying to destroy it.”@LindseyGrahamSC, in his first interview since the Mueller report dropped, said that Dems would “pay” in 2020 for their desire for collusion and pursuit of obstruction. pic.twitter.com/utxec5cFYh
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 23, 2019
Democrats lack a cohesive message on impeachment as they lay the groundwork to launch investigations into Mueller’s findings. The redacted report released last week showed Mueller did not find collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 election. However, Mueller did not clear Trump on the issue of obstruction of justice, leading some Democrats to pounce.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spent Monday urging members of her caucus to back off talk of impeachment, noting in a letter that there are alternative means to “holding the president accountable” beyond holding impeachment hearings. In a caucus-wide conference call, Pelosi and party leaders pushed for the focus to be on investigations into Mueller’s most damning findings.
Still, some Democrats aren’t ready to back off the impeachment talk just yet, including Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
“If the Democrats cannot decide that they’re going to move with impeachment, I guess they’re going to go on with these investigations,” Waters said during an interview Sunday with MSNBC. “How long are they going to go on with them? What more do they need to prove?”
Earlier Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Don McGahn, who rejected Trump’s request to fire Mueller, to appear before the panel this month and provide the committee with documents.
