Reasons for Impeachment, Beyond the Mueller Report – The Atlantic

“Even setting that aside, the Mueller report sets out substantial evidence that Trump criminally obstructed justice in at least some instances. The former Justice Department and FBI official Chuck Rosenberg has said that, in the absence of the Justice Department guidelines against the indictment of a sitting president, as a prosecutor, he would have brought an obstruction case against Trump. Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates have made similar arguments. And while lawbreaking is not required for impeachment, it is notable both that all three serious efforts to impeach a president in U.S. history have involved allegations of legal violations and that two of those three instances—against Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton—concerned criminal behavior, specifically obstruction of justice.”

Source: Reasons for Impeachment, Beyond the Mueller Report – The Atlantic

Mueller Report Says Trump Committed Crimes – The Atlantic

Mueller does not accuse the president of crimes. He doesn’t have to. But the facts he recounts describe criminal behavior. They describe criminal behavior even if we allow the president’s—and the attorney general’s—argument that facially valid exercises of presidential authority cannot be obstructions of justice. They do this because they describe obstructive activity that does not involve facially valid exercises of presidential power at all.

Source: Mueller Report Says Trump Committed Crimes – The Atlantic

The Mueller Report Didn’t Tell Us Trump’s Secrets – The Atlantic

“Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report has settled—or all but settled—important questions about the Trump-Russia matter.Did Russia intervene in the 2016 election with the conscious and articulated intent to help elect Donald Trump? Yes.How important were these interventions to the outcome? Large, possibly decisive.”

Source: The Mueller Report Didn’t Tell Us Trump’s Secrets – The Atlantic