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If the Majority Leader wants to move on, he should let the Senate do its job. Congress does not work for the President. Congress is a co-equal branch of government. It’s time to start acting like it.
The case will be closed when we’ve secured our elections against foreign interference. If the Majority Leader really wants to “move on,” he could start by allowing the Senate to consider the bipartisan Secure Elections Act.
The case will be closed when Congress has finished its legitimate oversight responsibilities. That means letting Congress finish its review of the Mueller investigation.
That means letting the Senate Intelligence Committee finish its bipartisan counter-intelligence investigation, so we can make sure this never happens again.
Frankly it’s embarrassing to watch elected members of Congress snap to attention and forget their Article One duties the minute the President tweets he doesn’t want Mueller to testify.
The Mueller Report documented 10 separate attempts by the President to interfere with the investigation into Russia’s attack on our democracy — including trying to have Mueller fired, and asking his staff to lie and create false documents.
Now the President is trying to block Mueller from testifying. That makes 11 as far as I see it.
These are not the actions of a person with nothing to hide. These are not the actions of someone with respect for the rule of law or a functioning moral compass.
It would be one thing if the President were even performing the bare minimum of his responsibility to protect us from Russia and other foreign adversaries.
Unfortunately, the President’s own aides are reportedly afraid to even mention the idea of election security in his presence, lest they set him off or bruise his ego.
This is just ridiculous. The Commander-in-Chief’s job is to protect us against foreign threats, not deny they exist because it wounds his pride.
The last thing the Senate should be doing is enabling this behavior by declaring “case closed” and sitting on our hands without taking any serious legislative action to defend our democracy.
