This is the question that has pushed to the fore in the wake of the release of the (redacted) Mueller Report last week. Given the array of presidential misconduct described in the Report, the question has given rise to more debate than one might have expected.
The impeachment question does not arise for Congressional Republicans. As with all of the President’s misconduct since he took office, they are largely silent. Only Senator Mitt Romney has condemned the President’s and his campaign’s behavior after reading the Mueller Report. But he misread it to say that Mueller found insufficient evidence to bring charges against the President. That is not the case. Instead, Mueller decided not to reach conclusions about whether obstruction crimes had been committed because of the Department of Justice’s policy not to indict sitting presidents for crimes.
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