Many are outraged after Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) declared that even after everything revealed in the Mueller report, impeachment of President Donald Trump is off the table.
“Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point," Leader Hoyer told CNN's Dana Bash. "Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgement."
Hoyer is the second most-powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives, behind Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
The redacted Mueller report makes clear President Trump engaged in possible obstruction on at least ten separate occasions. More importantly, it also makes clear that Mueller laid out the case for Congress to impeach Trump, because DOJ regulations bar indicting a sitting president.
Here's how many are responding to this new development:
Truly amazing to see the Democrats extend their theory of "People will get mad at us if we do the things we're supp… https://t.co/5HiijEXCl8— Tom Scocca (@Tom Scocca) 1555618471
this is an abdication of constitutional responsibility https://t.co/kKqG06SGIv— b-boy bouiebaisse (@b-boy bouiebaisse) 1555618177
If you want to depress Dem turnout in 2020 after millions of people worked their asses off to put give you the powe… https://t.co/2lGrc4FTq0— digby (@digby) 1555617233
Steny Hoyer should be removed from House leadership. https://t.co/S6fF5BAcXH— Matt McDermott (@Matt McDermott) 1555617943
The Democratic House leadership has this amazing combination of "savvy" and stone-cold dumbassery. They think they'… https://t.co/VOfhwU1sFm— David Roth (@David Roth) 1555619059
"i'm not going to do the thing that is literally my job because maybe our fucked up election system will accidental… https://t.co/c4VWCuRof8— Ashley Feinberg (@Ashley Feinberg) 1555618910
@mkraju @DanaBashCNN Rehash of "let the people decide" bullshit. Impeach now! DOJ wont do the job, let's put a check on the imbalance!— Andrew Fine (@Andrew Fine) 1555617025
@mkraju @DanaBashCNN Steny is wrong. Any Democrat that doesn’t find their spine today will pay at the polls.— Dean Haddix (@Dean Haddix) 1555617163
the single biggest thing to understand about the democratic party is that it actually has no desire to hold, exerci… https://t.co/CKWFbLWMbQ— inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended) 1555617993
This is infuriating. Time to start calling your Representatives. Impeachment hearings must be called or we as a… https://t.co/zSat2FOqfX— Jon Cryer (@Jon Cryer) 1555618402
“Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point. Very frankly, th… https://t.co/KZPNqX9dMT— Manu Raju (@Manu Raju) 1555616153
Now is not a time to be fucking cowardly and weak. https://t.co/vuqUnlPfBD— Adam Parkhomenko (@Adam Parkhomenko) 1555616300
Now is not a time to be fucking cowardly and weak. https://t.co/vuqUnlPfBD— Adam Parkhomenko (@Adam Parkhomenko) 1555616300
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