Analysis: If Democrats want to impeach President Trump, they're going to have to take the former special counsel's work, build on it, and prove the case.
who want to follow the politically risky trail toward impeaching President Donald Trump.
Then, over the course of seven hours, testifying before two committees, Mueller would intimate that there was evidence of conspiracy between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign, acknowledge with the simple word"true" that he found it unethical and wrong for a campaign to accept assistance from a hostile foreign power, and repeatedly suggest strongly that the president obstructed justice.
"Hearing Mueller say what he said blew me away," Ohio state Rep. Tavia Galonski, a Democrat who represents a district near Akron where Trump is popular, said in a telephone interview. All together, and Mueller's narrative-less testimony had to be assessed in toto or not at all, the former special counsel defended the contents of a report that Democrats have long held laid out a breathtaking effort by Trump to solicit and accept the help of a hostile foreign government to tip the 2016 election in his favor and then cover up the whole operation.
There's a difference between determining a crime has been committed and deciding to prosecute — then-FBI Director Jim Comey declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton but refused to say she had not committed a crime — and yet it's a thin line.Later, under questioning from Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.
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