Analysis: Critics say the president is abusing his authority so badly that he could be impeached for actions that having nothing to do with Russia.
for former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify by exercising executive privilege, though Trump told the paper in an interview that he had not"made a final, final decision" to do so.
In recent months, Trump has declared a national emergency so he could re-appropriate money to build a border wall — a move congressional Democrats and several state attorneys general say is an unconstitutional encroachment on Congress' spending authority — and his administration has routinely denied lawmakers' requests for basic information from federal agencies.
In his report to Attorney General William Barr, Mueller identified 10 instances in which Trump's behavior could be viewed as obstruction of justice. While Mueller declined to conclude the president had, in fact, obstructed justice — he said that Justice Department policy precluded him from recommending a prosecution of the president whether or not he believed it was warranted — he also said his report did not exonerate Trump.
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