Former Vice President Joe Biden called it “premature” to comment on whether he would prosecute President Trump if he was elected president in 2020.
Biden was responding to questions from reporters on Wednesday about whether a future potential administration of his would be willing to prosecute Trump after the current president leaves office, according to two tweets from journalists present with him.
{mosads}”I’m not one of these guys, you know, lock him up or send her home or that kind of stuff,” Biden told reporters in Michigan, according to the tweets.
Biden’s comments come after special counsel Robert Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee that he believes Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice when he is no longer president.
Mueller has cited the Department of Justice’s guidelines that state a sitting president cannot be indicted as a reason for stopping his office from considering whether to charge Trump with a crime.
Biden also reportedly told reporters he still believed Trump should be impeached.
So far more than 90 House Democrats back starting an impeachment inquiry against Trump, though Democratic leadership has opposed starting one. It remains unclear how much Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday will change the impeachment drive.