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“So it turns out that, indeed, President Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not ‘totally’ or ‘completely,’ as he claimed. ... [T]he special counsel’s report is damning. ...
“Mueller couldn’t say ... the president ... is not a criminal. He said ... ‘if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.’ Mueller did not so state. ...
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“That’s especially damning because the ultimate issue shouldn’t be — and isn’t — whether the president committed a criminal act. ... Americans should expect far more than merely that their president not be provably a criminal. ...
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“In fact, the Constitution demands it. ... [B]y taking the presidential oath of office, a president assumes the duty not simply to obey the laws, civil and criminal, that all citizens must obey, but also ... higher duties ....
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“[P]residential attempts to abuse power by putting personal interests above the nation’s can surely be impeachable. The president may have the raw constitutional power to, say, squelch an investigation or to pardon a close associate. ...
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“But if he does so not to serve the public interest, but to serve his own, he surely could be removed from office, even if he has not committed a criminal act. ...
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“[T]he facts in [the] report condemn Trump even more than [its] refusal to clear him of a crime. ... [T]he president is ... the nation’s highest law enforcement officer. ... [Mueller] describes a relentless torrent of ... obstructive activity by Trump. ...
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“Contrast ... Nixon[,] [who] was mostly passive ... compared to Trump. ... His aides were the driving force behind the [Watergate] obstruction. Trump, on the other hand, was a one-man show. His aides tried to stop him, according to Mueller ....
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“The underlying crime in Watergate was ... burglary.... The investigation that Trump ... interfere[d] with ... was [about] how a ... foreign power interfered with our democracy. If that’s not putting personal interests [over] the nation[‘s], nothing is....
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“John Dean told Nixon that there was a cancer within the presidency .... [T]oday there is a cancer in the presidency: Donald J. Trump. Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay.”
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