This column last argued that the time to impeach President Trump is now. This is also the time to impeach Attorney General (AG) William Barr.
AG Barr,
in testifying about the Mueller Report, committed perjury, an impeachable
offense. When asked at a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee if
he knew what members of Mueller's team were complaining about in a letter
stating they were upset about Barr's representation of their findings, and
whether Robert Mueller supported his conclusion of no collusion, he lied.He said: "I do
not" to the former, and "I don't know whether Bob Mueller supported
my conclusion." In fact, prior to that testimony, he had received a letter
from Mueller stating that Mueller disagreed with Barr's conclusion which threatened
the "full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."
If
there was any doubt about the perjury, it was cleared up by Robert Mueller's
press conference where he reiterated that the only reason he did not indict the president was
"[Because of the Department of Justice (DOJ) policy against indicting a
sitting president] we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial
judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's
conduct. If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime we would
have so stated. Accordingly ... this report does not exonerate him."