In a series of tweets Tuesday morning, attorney George Conway George ConwayPress: Get orange jumpsuit ready: extra large Influential Republicans detail call to reform party, threaten to form new one Lincoln Project forming 'transition advisory committee' amid calls to close MORE, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwayKaren Pence confirms move back to Indiana: 'No place like home' Pence urges 'positive' agenda to counter Biden in first speech since leaving office Kellyanne Conway joins Ohio Senate candidate's campaign MORE, said President Trump Donald TrumpTrump lashes out after grand jury seated for New York criminal probe Schumer tees up vote on Jan. 6 commission bill Senators struggle to save Jan. 6 commission MORE engaged in misconduct “worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation.” Conway linked to a column by The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent that said alleged attempts by Trump to stymie special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerSenate Democrats urge Garland not to fight court order to release Trump obstruction memo Why a special counsel is guaranteed if Biden chooses Yates, Cuomo or Jones as AG Barr taps attorney investigating Russia probe origins as special counsel MORE’s investigation “impeded the inquiry into not just his conduct, but also into the Russian attack on our political system.” “Exactly right,” Conway, a frequent Trump critic, wrote Tuesday, citing the president’s oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” ... in fact, it’s why Trump’s misconduct is worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation:https://t.co/XUNHA5O0Gy pic.twitter.com/rj2YdCbvc4 — George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019 “Trump violated that oath and put his own vanity and self-interest above that of the nation and people whose laws and Constitution he swore to faithfully execute and uphold,” Conway tweeted. “If that’s not impeachable, nothing is.” ADVERTISEMENT This angle, Conway wrote, is “why Trump’s misconduct is worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation.” Conway called on Congress to remove Trump in a Washington Post column last week, writing that Mueller’s report portrays Trump as “a cancer in the presidency.” Conway made the same comparison to Nixon in the column, writing that Nixon was “passive” compared to Trump. “Do we have a president who is loyal to the country, or loyal only to himself? When you put the question that way, and the object of the question is Donald J. Trump, now that we know all that we know about him and have seen all that we have seen, there can only be one answer,” Conway tweeted Tuesday. Conway’s excoriation of Trump has drawn the president’s ire before, with Trump calling him a “total loser” and “husband from hell” in late March, but Trump has largely been silent on Conway since despite Conway’s continued criticism.<doc-sep>George Conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump's senior White House adviser, published a damning op-ed article in The Washington Post on Thursday following the release of the redacted version of the special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation. "What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump," George Conway said. "Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay." Using quotes from Mueller's 448-page report, historical references, and the Constitution, Conway made the case for Congress to impeach Trump. Conway argued that despite a lack of criminal charges, Mueller's findings supported the argument that Trump abused his power and put his interests before those of the US, which Conway described as an impeachable offense. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. George Conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump's senior White House adviser, published a damning op-ed article in The Washington Post on Thursday following the release of the redacted version of the special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation. "What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump," George Conway said. "Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay." Using quotes from Mueller's 448-page report, historical references, and the Constitution, Conway made the case for Congress to impeach Trump, the president his wife works for and helped elect and whom he reportedly considered working for until Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. "Presidential attempts to abuse power by putting personal interests above the nation's can surely be impeachable," Conway said in the op-ed article. "The president may have the raw constitutional power to, say, squelch an investigation or to pardon a close associate. But if he does so not to serve the public interest, but to serve his own, he surely could be removed from office, even if he has not committed a criminal act." After Comey's firing in May 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to take over the FBI's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump's campaign coordinated with the Russians to influence the race. The inquiry later expanded into whether Trump worked to obstruct the investigation. According to Mueller's report, it also uncovered evidence in at least 14 other criminal investigations that were referred to other law-enforcement agencies. Only two of the 14 are public. Read more: Mueller referred 14 criminal matters to other prosecutors, but only 2 of them are public so far Mueller's report said that members of the campaign had contacts with Russian but that there was not enough evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller did not make a determination about whether Trump should be charged with obstruction of justice but also said that the report did not exonerate the president. "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 report said. "Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." The report cited a Justice Department guideline that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted as part of why it did not issue a determination on whether Trump should be charged. "We recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President's capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct," the report said. Conway argued that despite the lack of criminal charges on either count, Mueller's findings — and the understanding that impeachable offenses are not necessarily criminal ones — supported the argument that Trump abused his power and put his interests before those of the US, which Conway described as an impeachable offense. "The investigation that Trump tried to interfere with here, to protect his own personal interests, was in significant part an investigation of how a hostile foreign power interfered with our democracy," he said. "If that's not putting personal interests above a presidential duty to the nation, nothing is."<doc-sep>After special counsel Robert Mueller's highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was released on Thursday, George Conway, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's husband, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw their support behind impeaching President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the hashtag #ImpeachTrump is trending again on Twitter. The 448-page report, with redactions, which Attorney General William Barr released on Thursday morning, detailed the nearly two-year investigation, which resulted in 199 criminal charges and 34 individuals and organizations facing indictments or pleading guilty—including six former Trump associates and three Russian companies. While the special counsel's team did not establish that either Trump or his campaign had criminally conspired with Russia to sway the election, and did not charge Trump with obstruction of justice, it did not exonerate him. Following the report's release, Ocasio-Cortez vowed to sign on to fellow freshman Representative Rashida Tlaib's resolution calling for an investigation by the House Judiciary Committee into whether Trump had committed impeachable offenses. "Mueller's report is clear in pointing to Congress' responsibility in investigating obstruction of justice by the President," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "It is our job as outlined in Article 1, Sec 2, Clause 5 of the US Constitution. As such, I'll be signing onto @RashidaTlaib's impeachment resolution." When Tlaib introduced the resolution last month, she said her intention was to ensure "we don't have a lawless society that results in irreparable harm to the American people." Mueller’s report is clear in pointing to Congress’ responsibility in investigating obstruction of justice by the President. It is our job as outlined in Article 1, Sec 2, Clause 5 of the US Constitution. As such, I’ll be signing onto @RashidaTlaib’s impeachment resolution. https://t.co/CgPZJiULOL — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 18, 2019 In a Washington Post op-ed published on Thursday, Conway called Mueller's report "damning," condemned Trump as a "cancer in the presidency" and encouraged Congress to remove him from office. "The investigation that Trump tried to interfere with here, to protect his own personal interests, was a significant part an investigation of how a hostile foreign power interfered with our democracy," Conway wrote. "If that's not putting personal interests above a presidential duty to the nation, nothing is. "Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay," he wrote. Other Democrats, including Representative Al Green, have kept impeachment as an option. During a Thursday press conference, Green, who has previously pushed for Trump's removal from office, said that Muller's findings have "given us ample evidence to move forward with impeachment." Representative Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that the report "outlines disturbing evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice" and urged Congress to hold Trump accountable. "Regardless of whether the obstructive acts described by Mueller was criminal or whether the litany of illicit contacts with Russia rose to the level of conspiracy, they're dishonest, unethical, and unpatriotic," Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, tweeted. "Mueller's report is not a vindication of Trump, but a condemnation." But overall, Democrats are divided on whether to remove the president from office. After seeing Mueller's report, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told CNN's Dana Bash that he didn't believe pursuing impeachment would be "worthwhile…at this point." Not for the first time, #ImpeachTrump is currently trending on Twitter, with prominent political figures and ordinary citizens using the hashtag to convey their belief that the president should be removed from office over the findings in Mueller's report. In August 2017, the hashtag became the top trending phrase on Twitter when Trump said both sides were to blame for the violence that occurred in the Charlottesville, Virginia, during a white nationalist rally in which one woman was killed.<doc-sep>George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, believes the evidence collected by special counsel Robert Mueller is so “damning” for President Trump, he should be impeached immediately. “What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump,” Conway wrote in a scathing op-ed published in the Washington Post on Thursday night. “Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay.” Conway’s metaphor recalled White House counsel John Dean, who during Watergate famously told President Richard Nixon there was a cancer on the presidency and that it was “growing more deadly every day.” President Trump and George Conway. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) In a redacted version of Mueller’s highly anticipated report released Thursday morning, the special counsel concluded there is no evidence Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller also declined to charge Trump with obstruction of justice, despite amassing considerable evidence that he had attempted to shut down the special counsel investigation. Citing Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president, Mueller reasoned that bringing charges without affording Trump the opportunity to clear his name at a trial would be unfair. He left the disposition of the case up to Attorney General William Barr, who decided not to pursue obstruction charges. [Full text: The Mueller report] Conway, a prominent conservative lawyer who has become one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, argues that the standard for impeachment “shouldn’t be — and isn’t — whether the president committed a criminal act.” “Mueller couldn’t say, with any ‘confidence,’ that the president of the United States is not a criminal,” Conway wrote. “He said, stunningly, that ‘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.’ Mueller did not so state. Story continues “That’s especially damning because the ultimate issue shouldn’t be — and isn’t — whether the president committed a criminal act,” Conway continued. “Americans should expect far more than merely that their president not be provably a criminal. In fact, the Constitution demands it.” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway speaks to reporters about the release of the Mueller report on Thursday. (Photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Earlier Thursday after the Mueller report was released, Kellyanne Conway treated it as an exoneration. “We’re accepting apologies today, too, for anybody who feels the grace in offering them,” Conway said. “It’s time to move on.” She also used a colorful metaphor to describe Mueller’s probe. “It was a political proctology examine,” Conway said. “And we emerged with a clean bill of health.” [Trump sought to obstruct Mueller — but White House aides wouldn’t do it] “The big lie that you let fly for two years, it’s over folks,” she added. “The burden is increasingly on those who won’t let go of this big lie.” That presumably includes her husband. In an interview with the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast last year, George Conway admitted he wept with joy and pride on election night, reflecting on how Kellyanne Conway helped engineer Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton. “Look, my wife did an amazing thing,” he said. “She basically got this guy elected.” In the same interview, Conway also explained why he turned down a top job at the Justice Department as chief of the civil division — a post that would have put him in charge of defending the Trump administration in lawsuits throughout the country. Conway said that as he was about to accept the job, he was having doubts about the president’s relationship with the Justice Department, among other developments in the administration. “I’m filling out the financial forms and it’s like ... I’m watching this thing, and it’s like the administration is like a s***show in a dumpster fire,” Conway said. “And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to do that.’” _____ More coverage of the Mueller report from Yahoo News:<doc-sep>
George Conway George ConwayPress: Get orange jumpsuit ready: extra large Influential Republicans detail call to reform party, threaten to form new one Lincoln Project forming 'transition advisory committee' amid calls to close MORE, attorney and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwayKaren Pence confirms move back to Indiana: 'No place like home' Pence urges 'positive' agenda to counter Biden in first speech since leaving office Kellyanne Conway joins Ohio Senate candidate's campaign MORE, called for Congress to remove President Trump Donald TrumpTrump lashes out after grand jury seated for New York criminal probe Schumer tees up vote on Jan. 6 commission bill Senators struggle to save Jan. 6 commission MORE. "What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump," the frequent Trump critic wrote in a Thursday Washington Post op-ed. "Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay," he added. Conway made the case that the newly released Mueller report shows that Trump committed offenses worthy of removal from office. ADVERTISEMENT "The investigation that Trump tried to interfere with here, to protect his own personal interests, was in significant part an investigation of how a hostile foreign power interfered with our democracy," he wrote. "If that’s not putting personal interests above a presidential duty to the nation, nothing is." Conway also said that former President Nixon, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal, was "passive" compared to Trump. Democrats have been split Thursday on whether impeachment is an avenue they would pursue. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Steny Hamilton HoyerDemocrats worry Jan. 6 probe could divert their agenda Omar says Facebook refusing to take down 'hate speech' ad Israel arms sale exposes Democratic fault lines MORE (D-Md.) said that "impeachment is not worthwhile at this point." However, Rep. Al Green Alexander (Al) N. GreenLawmakers roll out legislation to defend pipelines against cyber threats Bipartisan lawmakers call for action on anti-hate crime measures House Democrat sits on Capitol steps to protest extremist threat MORE (D-Texas) reiterated his support for impeaching the president and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGOP leaders face new calls to boot Greene Joe Crowley to register as lobbyist for recording artists Democratic leaders discussed restraining order for Ocasio-Cortez against Greene: report MORE (D-N.Y.) said she would sign on to a resolution calling for an investigation into whether Trump committed impeachable offenses. The Justice Department Thursday released a redacted version of the Mueller report, which detailed the results of special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerSenate Democrats urge Garland not to fight court order to release Trump obstruction memo Why a special counsel is guaranteed if Biden chooses Yates, Cuomo or Jones as AG Barr taps attorney investigating Russia probe origins as special counsel MORE's probe into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election.