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WASHINGTON, April 20 (KUNA) -- US Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called on Congress to begin the impeachment process against President Donald Trump following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report.
Warren said in a series of tweets, "the Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack."
She added, "Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress, the correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment."
"To ignore a President's repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways," she stressed.
She noted, "the severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty.
That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States."
In response, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaneil said in a tweet that Trump "was just exonerated after TWO YEARS of Democrat lies.
Democrats' calls for impeachment have been bogus all along, but Elizabeth Warren is proving how truly desperate they are to appeal to their radical base."
She stressed in a separate tweet "Democrats got the investigation they asked for, a Special Counsel and the report itself.
Now they are issuing a subpoena to see classified information that, by law, cannot be shared outside DOJ. When will they accept the facts? NO collusion means NO collusion."
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler had issued a subpoena for the full Mueller report and underlying evidence related to the Special Counsel's investigation, stressing in a statement that "the redactions appear to be significant," and that "even the redacted version of the report outlines serious instances of wrongdoing by President Trump and some of his closest associates."
On Thursday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Mueller to testify before the Congress, saying that Attorney General William Barr's handling of the Mueller report has caused "a crisis of confidence."
Trump said in a series of tweets "statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated and totally untrue.
Watch out for people that take so-called "notes," when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the "Report" about me."
He reiterated, "this was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened, a big, fat, waste of time, energy and money - USD 30,000,000 to be exact.
It is now finally time to turn the tables and bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people who have committed very serious crimes, perhaps even Spying or Treason. This should never happen again!"
"Time for Democrats to accept reality," he remarked in a later tweet.
Meanwhile, Republican Senator Mitt Romney said in a statement posted to twitter, "I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President."
Romney, a one-time Republican presidential nominee, added that he is also "appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia-including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement." (end)
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