Opinion: To impeach or not to impeach? That is now the question.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk down the stairs of Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday. By Max Boot Max Boot Columnist covering national security Email Bio Follow Columnist April 19 at 3:28 PM Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III just delivered the most devastating indictment of a sitting president’s behavior since Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski’s 1974 “road map” for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon.
Mueller didn’t come out and say the president broke the law — but only, it seems, because he is precluded from doing so by the Justice Department policy that a president can’t be indicted. Bending over backward to be fair, Mueller refused to level charges that Trump would not be able to confront in a court of law anytime soon. But anyone reading the Mueller report would have to conclude that the president is guilty as sin.
Prosecution is unlikely. A Republican administration would not want to indict a former Republican president out of party loyalty, and a Democratic administration would not want to do so because it would not want to be seen as misusing its prosecutorial powers for political purposes.
Presumably the Democratic leadership is worried about repeating the debacle that was the Clinton impeachment, with Bill Clinton emerging more popular than ever. If there is a popular backlash against an impeachment — if it is seen, in Trump’s favorite phrase, as a political witch hunt — it could help the president win a second term.
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