Democratic
Rep. Al Green said Tuesday evening that President Donald Trump's firing
of FBI Director James Comey would be an impeachable offense if it was
done to stop the investigation into alleged ties between Russian and
Trump's 2016 campaign.
Trump
fired Comey Tuesday, citing a letter from the deputy attorney general
that criticized the FBI director's handling of the investigation into
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's email server. However, the timing
of Comey's firing -- in the midst of an FBI investigation into Trump's
associates and Russia -- has raised serious questions about the
President's motives.
"Well, we live in a world where it's not enough for things to be right. They must also look right," the Texas congressman told local news station KRIV in
Houston. "This doesn't look right given that we know now that the FBI
is currently looking into this Russia association with the President and
some of his associates. It just doesn't look right for this to happen
essentially about what happened with (former acting Attorney General
Sally) Yates testifying. It just doesn't look right, it doesn't smell
right. This is something that we have to get to bottom of and it's
starting to become something akin to an impeachable offense.
"If
the President is found to have done this to circumvent this
investigation, to thwart to the efforts to get the bottom of this, I
think this is going to be an impeachable offense. He's really treading
in some very dangerous waters. This is unusual for this kind of thing to
happen in the United States of America."
Earlier
in the interview, Green said there would need to be an independent
commission with broad subpoena power to look into Russia ties.
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