Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Democrats to proceed with caution when it comes to the possibility of impeaching President Donald Trump in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Clinton, the former Democratic nominee who ran against Trump in the 2016 presidential race, wrote that Mueller's findings detailed an assault on the U.S. and a "serious crime against the American people" but said it's foolish to believe Democrats only have two choices on how to hold President Donald Trump accountable: immediately impeach or do nothing.
"Obviously, this is personal for me, and some may say that I’m not the right messenger. But my perspective is not just that of a former candidate and target of the Russian plot," Clinton wrote, touching on private emails stolen from her and the Democratic Party during the 2016 election by Russians. "Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated."
She goes on to describe her experience as the first lady during impeachment proceedings aimed at her husband, President Bill Clinton, her experience as an attorney for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings against President Richard Nixon and as a senator in New York during the 9/11 terror attacks.
