Not only did those who already support impeachment proceedings view Mueller’s statement as a call to action, more Democrats piled on, saying it was now time to initiate the significant measure of an impeachment inquiry.
After Robert Mueller broke his silence during a news conference yesterday, more Democrats decided it was time to join dozens of their colleagues in calling on Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
“[T]he Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing,” Mueller said. “I think it's like 35 of them out of 238—maybe it's 38 of them out of 238—have said that they wanted to be outspoken on impeachment and many of them are reflecting their views, as well as those of their constituents,” Pelosi said at a Commonwealth Club event in her district of San Francisco, California, shortly after Mueller’s statement. “But we want to do what is right and what gets results.
Illinois Representatives Danny Davis and Jesús “Chuy” García, who both serve on committees investigating the president, joined their Democratic colleagues Wednesday in calling for an impeachment inquiry. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts did as well, bringing the total number of House Democrats who support impeachment proceedings to 38 out of 235.
One of her Democratic colleagues on the committee, Representative David Cicilline, expressed a similar sentiment.
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