Elizabeth Warren Read Unredacted Portions of the Mueller Report on the Senate Floor
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Given that most people have not read the 400-plus page Mueller Report (just 3% polled by CNN said they had read the whole thing), this is a true public service being delivered by Elizabeth Warren. By reading unredacted portions of the Mueller Report on the floor of the Senate, Senator Warren is fossilizing the special counsel’s words into the public record in an easily digestable, 41-minute podcast-esque missive on the president of the United States’ impeachable offenses.
You and I both took an oath, @SenateMajLdr McConnell. To defend the Constitution of the United States – not to protect @realDonaldTrump. Congress must consider the evidence provided in the Mueller Report and hold the President accountable. https://t.co/H2aoBCl7AD
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 7, 2019
I read the Mueller Report. Most of it, at least. The day it was published was a wild sprint across all of media to get something factual and worthwhile up as soon as reasonably possible. I read the “collusion” section in detail, but skipped most of the obstruction section once it became obvious that the episodes cited by special counsel Robert Mueller were all what had been publicly reported by outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post (Mueller cited reporting quite a bit in that section too).
But there are previously unknown details to widely known stories that seriously add to Trump’s legal woes on obstruction of justice. Senator Warren focuses on the obstruction of justice section in her Impeach Trump Podcast, live from the Senate floor, because she read the entire Mueller Report—including this line from Robert Mueller himself that is nothing less than an impeachment referral to the United States Congress on the topic of obstruction of justice: