Democrats may have slyly alluded to the Mueller report in articles of impeachment

Mueller Report.
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House Democrats didn't mention the Mueller report when announcing two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power and the other for obstructing Congress — against President Trump on Tuesday.

Some folks who also wanted to see Trump get tagged with obstructing justice during the investigation into 2016 Russian election interference were disappointed in the fact that it wasn't a focus.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.