{"id":62565,"date":"2019-05-31T11:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62565"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:54:20","slug":"fresh-calls-for-trump-impeachment-after-muellers-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/fresh-calls-for-trump-impeachment-after-muellers-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh calls for Trump impeachment after Mueller\u2019s statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s first and possibly last public statement on the Russia investigation is fueling fresh calls on Capitol Hill to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a step that Democratic leaders have so far resisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprising Washington with brief remarks on Wednesday, Mueller indicated it\u2019s up to Congress to decide what to do with his findings. The special counsel reiterated that, bound by Justice Department policy, charging a sitting President with a crime was \u201cnot an option.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he also stressed he could not exonerate Trump. Instead, he cited that same policy to say, \u201cThe Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system.\u201d With Mueller closing his office and not expected to comment further, it all amounted, for some, to an open invitation for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have one remaining path to ensure justice is served,\u201d said Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democratic presidential candidate. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s first and possibly last public statement on the Russia investigation is fueling fresh calls on Capitol Hill to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a step that Democratic leaders have so far resisted. Surprising Washington with brief remarks on Wednesday, Mueller indicated it\u2019s up to Congress to decide what to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62567,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62565\/revisions\/62567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}