Presidential hopeful Hickenlooper backs impeachment probe
Ex-Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has become the latest Democratic presidential hopeful to call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Hickenlooper described himself Thursday as an “extreme moderate” but said special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement Wednesday spurred him to back an impeachment investigation.
On CNN’s “New Day,” Hickenlooper said Mueller “laid the responsibility clearly at the doorstep of Congress” and he thinks “we have to begin an impeachment inquiry.”
Hickenlooper said an inquiry may not lead to an impeachment vote and acknowledged the Republican-controlled Senate would never remove Trump if the Democratic-controlled House impeached him.
Democratic candidates Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York had declined to push impeachment but backed the process after Mueller’s statement.
Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shot down repeated attempts by Congress members of her own party, including Colorado’s Joe Neguse and Diana DeGette, to move forward on an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
DeGette, D-Denver, said last week that the president’s refusal to cooperate “in any way” is forcing Democrats’ hand on an impeachment investigation.
“This is far beyond what happened with the Nixon cover-up,” she said of the former president and the break-in at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in 1972.
“It’s really Donald Trump trying to continuously obstruct justice in the most public of ways.”
Neguse – a member of the Judiciary Committee – told Colorado Politics on Friday that the president’s actions in resisting the House’s constitutional oversight authority could leave the chamber no choice, especially in the wake of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“You have a number of members who have concluded enough is enough. Ultimately the administration’s pattern of, really, a wholesale obstruction of Congress in terms of our ability to basic oversight has been building for quite some time,” he said.
Trump has called Mueller’s Russia investigation a “witch hunt” and declared he “did nothing wrong.”
Colorado Politics’ Joey Bunch and The Washington Examiner contributed to this report.
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