House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that most House Democrats aren’t demanding immediate impeachment but aim to show the country that President Donald Trump is hiding something big.
“The big issue that I think needs to be made to the American people is that this president is conducting one of the biggest cover-ups of any administration in the history of the United States,” Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday. “He does not want to tell the American people the facts they need to know to make rational judgments, or that their representatives in Congress need to know to make rational legislative decisions. There are a lot of people who agree with me.”
Hoyer made the remarks shortly after the House Judiciary Committee gaveled in for a hearing at which former White House counsel Don McGahn refused to appear, prompting many pro-impeachment Democrats to clamor for action.
[Related: Democrats ramp up calls for impeachment, but Pelosi pumps the brakes]
Hoyer said that most Democrats, however, are not calling for immediate impeachment but instead want the oversight committees to keep investigating Trump.
“The majority of Democrats continue to believe we need to continue to pursue the avenue we have been on in trying to elicit information and testimony, review the Mueller report, and and review other items,” Hoyer said. “And if the facts lead us to broader action, so be it.”
Hoyer said the ultimate decision to begin impeachment proceedings will be “a collective judgment” among the Democratic leaders and the caucus.
“I don’t think we’re there at this point in time,” Hoyer said.
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