Mueller to make a public case for Trump impeachment with 'very substantial evidence' in congressional hearing, committee chairman says
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Robert Mueller will air "very substantial evidence" of wrongdoing by Donald Trump and make a public case for impeachment when he appears before congressional hearings this week, it has been claimed.
The lawyer’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election shows the US president is guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanours", says Jerrold Nadler , the House Judiciary Committee chairman.
"This is a president who has violated the law six ways from Sunday," the leading Democrat said. "We have to present, or let Mueller present, those facts to the American people...because the administration must be held accountable and no president can be above the law."
Mr Mueller will answer questions about his findings – which specifically looked at links between the Russian state and Mr Trump’s election campaign – during back-to-back hearings on Wednesday.
Analysts suggest his testimony could be pivotal in shifting public opinion on if the president should be held accountable for those apparent links.
The report itself – a redacted version of which was published in April – did not find sufficient evidence to establish charges of criminal conspiracy. But it did suggest Mr Trump may have tried to obstruct the investigation.
Now Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have said they plan to focus on a set of episodes laid out in the report to direct the attention of Americans to what they see as the most egregious examples of the president's conduct, which point to obstruction of justice.
Those examples include Mr Trump's directions to then-White House counsel Donald McGahn to have Mr Mueller removed and, later, orders from Mr Trump to Mr McGahn to deny that happened.
Democrats also will focus questioning on a series of meetings Mr Trump had with former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in which the president directed Mr Lewandowski to persuade then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit Mr Mueller's investigation.
But Doug Collins , the top Republican on the committee, argued that "any thought of impeachment is waning" and that the American public has moved on.
He added that Republicans will be focused in their questioning on making clear that the Mueller report represents a "final episode" in the Russia probe, which he described as flawed.
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This is a win win situation for people who want Trump brought to justice. If it is nothing but an accurate recitation of the report it is not good for Trump. If they get him to go beyond the report that is not good for Trump either.
Trumpsters assume they have overcome this problem, but the truth can never be ultimately overcome.
You keep saying that, and have been. He's going to be a POS again if things don't go your way in the hearing.
The shitstain of a 'president' has been and always will be a gangster, thug, grifter, thug, thief, low life, scumlappingshitbag, liar, racist, piece of shit
Trump won the battle of projection......
Nonsense, as usual.
Endless investigations going back years and years and years and NOTHING.
Where is this evidence coming from? Re-reading the report isn't going to do it. BTW a US Attorney investigation is about to take down critical parts of the Mueller Report. An attorney for Joseph Mifsud is being questioned about who Mifsud worked for.
The hearing has begun.
Are people watching this? It is a disaster for Mueller and the democrats. A few things are now obvious - the Mueller Report and the investigation itself was staff driven! It was those activists like Weissmann who ran the show and it was they who pushed back against the AG.
Mueller looks so feeble. I'm old but I hope I never get that old!
Are you really serious John???? Mueller is going to defend and "explain" his 478 page report to the idiots on the numerous Dem/Lib panels because they are too futched up with their hate and loathing at having lost the 2016 Presidential election "CONSTITUTIONALLY" - and they won't quit.
IF Mueller provides additional information not addressed in the report, he has just damned himself, his committee and the law. This is not a time of "do-overs" - he crossed that line when he issued the OFFICIAL/FINAL report.
How many swings is this?
The MSM will do it's duty for the Democrats and regurgitate what we already know in breathless headlines for 24 hours and then no one will care.
after reports and press conferences and the whole impeachment roadshow, support for hearings is down to 21%, from 27%.The more Mueller's reports get publicized, the farther support for impeachment drops.
The report contains the truth, and a recitation of the truth will not help Trump.
There will be no headline at the end of the day that reads "Muller Exonerates Trump."
You keep saying that.....Whats going to happen if things don't go your way?
You said that already
Ok, thanks.... I wasn't sure
It bears repeating at least as often as the usual "I Hate Trump" nonsense is.
LOL of course not. mueller can not testify to anything that is not already in the report.
mueller getting asked questions about how that investigation got started is where the real fun is.
The purpose of the Mueller investigation was NEVER to exonerate the President.
yepp...
the purpose of that investigation was to frame trump on BS charges to justify impeachment.
and it was an epic failure
not a chance... LOL
too funny
I bet you can see the Pyramids andthe Sphinx and from that river in Egypt...
and you would lose every time...
cheers
It looks like mueller got his deputy to act as a crutch for him and testify with him, because he apparently doesn’t understand his own report enough to testify like a big boy on his own.
as someone said on Twitter, it’s looking like the “mueller report “ will resemble constanza working on the Penske file.
That's not it at all. His deputy can state things that Mueller cannot.
What exactly can Mueller NOT say?
And why?
WHo told him?
"This is remarkable. Mueller can’t answer key questions, seems unaware of basic information, and admitted he denied exoneration of Trump over a standard that doesn’t exist. No one needs to discredit this process. Team Mueller and House Democrats are discrediting it by themselves".....Mark Meadows
Well, that was prescient.
Translation for "It was out of my purview" and "I'm not going to discuss that": I wasn't really in control, nor did I know what was going on!
That little bitch petitioned the DOJ to restrict the questions he would be ask. I have a feeling he knew that there were many quesitons that would not look good for the Democrats. Like they can look any more like the blithering idiots they've made themselves look the past 3 years.
They can go on with it, but from now on it hurts them more than it hurts the President.
You mean like the evidence (or lack thereof) he testified to today?