The Russia collusion narrative is unlikely to go away even after the Robert Mueller report is released later today, Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York predicts.
“A lot of Democrats have invested the last two years of their life in believing that there was collusion between Russia to fix the 2016 election. Don’t think they gonna give it up just because of this,” York told “Fox and Friends”.
“A lot of Democrats have invested the last two years of their life in believing that there was collusion between Russia to fix the 2016 election. Don’t think they gonna give it up just because of this.”
The prediction comes as Washington, D.C. is bracing for the release of the Mueller report that according to Attorney General William Barr didn’t establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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York pointed out that after Barr outlined the report’s conclusions in a letter and quoted Mueller stating that the evidence didn’t establish a conspiracy or coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, many Democrats began doubling-down on the collusion charges.
“Immediately people on the left said maybe he couldn't prove a criminal conspiracy but maybe there was some other sort of conspiracy. Or maybe he couldn't prove to beyond a reasonable doubt but maybe there is evidence that the rest of us can believe,” York said.
“I really think we have already seen and they already tipped their hands that they are going to continue to believe in collusion.”
“I really think we have already seen and they already tipped their hands that they are going to continue to believe in collusion.”
On the obstruction of justice charges, York says those opposing President Trump will have even more to talk about after the report release as Mueller himself didn’t reach a conclusion about obstruction charges.
“If the Barr summary is pretty accurate, Mueller did not reach a conclusion about obstruction. That's a question right there. He is a prosecutor. He has all the evidence. Why didn't he reach some sort of conclusion?” he said.
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“There will be a lot of ammunition, we know that already for Trump's critics who say that firing James Comey or the Lester Holt interview or something else was proof of obstruction right there in front of our eyes. So I don't think that argument is going to go away at all.”
Lastly, even if the Mueller report doesn’t find wrongdoing by Trump, it’s unlikely to end the talk of impeachment by Democrats even as the 2020 election nears.
“If you believed in impeachment before the Mueller report, why would you stop believing in it now?,” York said, pointing that there’s a conflict within the Democratic Party on how to proceed with this.
“You have a lot of the leadership like Nancy Pelosi wanting to move on, these are the more senior people wanting to move on, wanting to focus on the legislative agenda,” he continued.
“But you are going to have the investigative committees, the judiciary committee, the intelligence committee investigating this stuff all the way until the next election.”
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