Senator Warren Calls For President Trump’s Impeachment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)

BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Following the release of the Mueller Report this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

In a series of Tweets Friday afternoon, Warren, who announced her campaign for the Democratic 2020 ticket two months ago, laid out her reasoning to impeach:

The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019

To ignore a President’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019

Warren is the first 2020 candidate to call for impeachment; Democrats are largely split on the issue.

Since Thursday’s release of the Special Counsel’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has so far declined to comment on the possibility of impeachment proceedings.