Romney not ready to say Trump should be impeached

​Sen. Mitt Romney called comments from a Republican House colleague about impeaching President Trump “courageous” but admitted he isn’t ready to go down that road.

“My own view is that Justin Amash has reached a different conclusion than I have​,” Romney said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the Michigan congressman. ​

​”I respect him. I think it’s a courageous statement,” the Utah Republican said. “But I believe that to make a case for obstruction of justice, you just don’t have the elements that are evidenced in this document.”​

Romney, a 2012 presidential nominee, said he spent two days reading special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report on the Russia investigation and concluded that the evidence isn’t there.

“I just don’t think that there is the full element that you need to prove an obstruction of justice case,” Romney said. “I don’t think impeachment is the right way to go.”

Amash became the first Republican to call for Trump’s impeachment when he posted a series of tweets blasting Attorney General William Barr of trying to “mislead the public” about Mueller’s findings on whether Trump obstructed justice.

“Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Amash wrote in a series of postings.

While Mueller said his investigators didn’t uncover evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians, he didn’t reach a conclusion on obstruction.

In the report, the special counsel listed 10 instances in which Trump tried to scuttle the investigation, including by telling former White House counsel Don McGahn to have Mueller fired.

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