Opinion: Mueller’s report is the beginning, not the end
By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 18 at 5:29 PM The report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III provides a devastating portrait of President Trump’s behavior that may invite the beginning of an impeachment inquiry and a constitutional confrontation. A collision of some kind between the president and Democrats who control the House of Representatives is now inevitable.
The report will only embolden House Democrats who are already investigating the president and may increase pressure to launch formal impeachment inquiries, even though Democratic leaders have been reluctant to move in that direction. But Mueller — perhaps anticipating the importance of the word “collusion” in Trump’s propaganda — was explicit in saying that “collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law.”
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