Analysis: Mueller punted his report to a Congress ill-equipped to deal with it
By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow April 20 at 6:00 AM Read the Mueller report, and it’s pretty clear that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III believes President Trump acted inappropriately and maybe even illegally. But the special counsel’s work is descriptive, not prescriptive. He left the work of deciding what should be done to Congress.
For proof, look no further than how Republicans in Congress have reacted to the Mueller report. There is a case to be made that the president blocked or tried to end the investigation multiple times, and yet Republicans nearly universally declared that because Mueller didn’t recommend charging the president with any crimes, Trump is exonerated, and we should just stop talking about it.
"He's just not worth it,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last month of the political costs of impeaching Trump.
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