Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook McEnany says Juneteenth is a very ‘meaningful’ day to Trump MORE (D-Calif.) said in a new interview that if she was elected president, her administration’s Justice Department would have “no choice” but to prosecute President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE for possible obstruction of justice.
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“I believe that they would have no choice and that they should, yes,” the 2020 presidential candidate told the “NPR Politics Podcast” in an episode released Wednesday. “There has to be accountability.”
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“I mean look, people might, you know, question why I became a prosecutor. Well, I’ll tell you one of the reasons — I believe there should be accountability,” Harris continued, adding that “everyone should be held accountable, and the president is not above the law.”
Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, said she wasn’t hesitant about the possibility of putting a former president on trial, saying that “the facts and the evidence will take the process where it leads.”
“I do believe that we should believe Bob Mueller when he tells us essentially that the only reason an indictment was not returned is because of a memo in the Department of Justice that suggests you cannot indict a sitting president,” Harris said, referring to comments the special counsel made about his 22-month investigation into Russian interference. “But I’ve seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence.”
Harris is one of several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who have called for Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against Trump in wake of the release of Mueller’s report.
She emphasized her position last month after Mueller said that his office did not charge Trump with a crime because it was “was not an option” under regulations from the Department of Justice about indicting a sitting president.
“What Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) MuellerCNN’s Toobin warns McCabe is in ‘perilous condition’ with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill’s 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE basically did was return an impeachment referral,” she tweeted at the time. “Now it is up to Congress to hold this president accountable.”
What Robert Mueller basically did was return an impeachment referral. Now it is up to Congress to hold this president accountable.
We need to start impeachment proceedings. It’s our constitutional obligation.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) May 29, 2019
Harris’s new comments about prosecuting Trump aren’t the first time she’s weighed in on the matter. She said at a recent event in South Carolina that she’d consider prosecuting the president, The Washington Post noted.
Mueller’s report, which was released in April, did not find evidence to conclude a conspiracy between the 2016 Trump campaign and Moscow took place. The report noted that Mueller did not come to a conclusive determination on whether Trump obstructed justice.