However, says Speaker Nancy Pelosi, they can still hold Trump accountable on Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
US House Democrats are divided over whether to proceed directly to impeach President Donald Trump after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, but they can still hold Trump accountable without impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
Pelosi and some other Democratic Party leaders have been wary of impeaching Republican Trump just 18 months before the November 2020 presidential election, although prominent liberals have demanded the start of proceedings to remove Trump from office since the release of a redacted version of Mueller's report last Thursday.
"While our views range from proceeding to investigate the findings of the Mueller report or proceeding directly to impeachment, we all firmly agree that we should proceed down a path of finding the truth," Pelosi said in her letter. "Not fact-finding as a means of punting... but as a means of determining how best to fulfil our responsibilities," Representative Tom Malinowski said."There's no question that Mueller referred this to the Congress, and none of us want to drop the ball."
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