Dem Rep Castro: Trump ‘Moving Himself Closer and Closer to Impeachment Proceedings’

Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said President Donald Trump was moving “closer and closer to impeachment proceedings.”

Partial transcript as follows:

MATTHEWS: You’re on that committee. at somewhere down the road you’ll be in the Congress. The Congress has to decide on impeaching this president or not. I’m look at Leonhardt’s piece in “The New York Times,” today in the oped page. It’s very detailed and very sharp and objective. He goes through all these points. We opened the show with it. How do you not see that, how do you not see obstruction of justice in the pattern of the president right up through today in pushing McCabe out of office in going after Rosenstein and getting rid of Comey, all these actions have been by the president to protect himself against prosecution. Isn’t that the definition of obstruction?

CASTRO: Well I guess let me just say it looks like the president is moving himself closer and closer to impeachment proceedings. And the evidence of obstruction of justice is getting stronger. On the impeachment vote so far, I have voted present because I’m part of the Intelligence Committee and I want the investigations to run their course first. But it certainly looks like the evidence is gaining steam.

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