6/12/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the Justice Department would have ‘no choice’ but to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice if he finished his term without being impeached. Speaking with NPR’s Scott Detrow in an interview published Wednesday [6-12-19], Harris said special counsel Robert Mueller essentially set the stage for criminal charges against Trump with his investigation into the 2016 election. Longstanding Justice Department policy says that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and Harris said that was essentially the only reason Mueller did not charge Trump. All that would change in 2021 if the Democratic presidential hopeful were in the White House and the Justice Department were under her watch, she said…Harris has openly called for Trump’s impeachment following the release of the Mueller report, which did not absolve the president of obstructing FBI efforts to look into his 2016 campaign. During his first public statement since the release of his report, Mueller said that if his team had had ‘confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.’”

Matthew Choi, “Kamala Harris: Justice Dept. has ‘no choice’ but to charge Trump if he loses in 2020,” Politico, June 12, 2019 5:04 am