If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.

The Mueller Report, 2019, Volume II, p4.

Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.

The Mueller Report, 2019, Volume II, p4.

As Robert Mueller stated today before the Nation, he stands by his report, and essentially has nothing further to say. You may disagree with his position on continuing any further conversations, especially with the Congress. But you can’t disagree with his statements about Trump as cited above. If Trump didn’t commit obstruction, Mr. Mueller would have said so. He didn’t. And, Mueller stated clearly, that his team did Not exonerate him. The case is not over.

The Obstruction Investigation

What did the Special Prosecutor (SP) conclude about Trump’s obstruction of justice investigation, as detailed in Part II of the 2019 Mueller Report? Part II of the report is 182 pages long. The factual results of the Trump’s Obstruction investigation take up 144 of those pages. Eleven key events were investigated by Mueller.

Mueller’s team spent two years investigating a myriad of ways Donald Trump attempted to interfere with the ongoing investigation of Russian interference into the 2016 Presidential election. Mueller concluded that the Russian government did interfere in this election, and used cyber techniques to steal information from Hilary Clinton’s campaign, distribute much of it through Wikileaks, and use the information as the basis for social media articles that favored Donald Trump’s campaign over Hilary Clinton’s. The use of Facebook, Twitter, and news outlets was compelling, and merciless in denigrating the Clinton campaign.

The Russians did so much damage in the 2016 election, that it’s no wonder that Trump has continued to claim that Mueller was heading up a witch hunt. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mueller concluded that the Russians did interfere in the Presidential election, and indicted more than a dozen Russian government officials and military officers. If Trump were to accept this part of the Mueller report, he would be acknowledging that his presidency is a sham.

Obstruction Events

There are eleven events that the Mueller team investigated. Each is potentially an obstruction of justice event. There is enough detail in the Mueller Report to demand that the Congress of the United States begin the Impeachment process against the sitting President. Here are the events:

• The Campaign’s response about Russian support for Trump.
• The President’s conduct concerning the investigation of Michael Flynn.
• The President’s reaction to public confirmation of the FBI’s Russia investigation.
• Events leading up to and surrounding the termination of FBI Director Comey.
• The President’s efforts to remove the Special Counsel.
• The President’s efforts to curtail the Special Counsel investigation.
• The President’s Efforts to prevent disclosure of Emails about the June 9, 2016 meeting between Russians and senior campaign officials.
• The President’s further efforts to have the Attorney General take over the investigation.
• The President’s conduct towards Flynn, Manafort, and (Crossed Out)
• The President’s conduct involving Michael Cohen

Each of these events is reported in detail. There is enough evidence in the Mueller report to provide the Congress with a basis to begin the Impeachment process in House of Representatives. In my view, the Democrats need to act, and fulfill their Constitutional Duty to oversee the Executive Branch, and to make determinations about improper conduct and potential criminal activity.

Doing not is not an option.