“They went all-in on a collusion conspiracy that never existed, didn’t get the result they wanted, and now they’re throwing manufactured controversies at the wall to see if anything sticks,” said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a top conservative ally of Trump.
Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, contended that Mueller’s report wasn’t asking Congress to conduct an investigation. “The report doesn’t say Congress should investigate obstruction now. It says Congress can make laws about obstruction,” he said in a statement.
The Center for American Progress likened Mueller’s report to Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski’s “road map” that led to a House impeachment inquiry against President Richard Nixon. In a statement, the group said the new report should be considered “an impeachment referral for obstruction of justice by the president of the United States.”
Judiciary Committee Democrat Jamie Raskin of Maryland said, “Everybody wants to jump to the end of the story. We’re just at the beginning of it now.”
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