Pelosi: Trump’s Mexico tariff threat is a ‘distraction’ from Mueller report

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico is just a “distraction” from the Mueller report.

“I don’t even think it rises to the level of policy, it’s notion-mongering, again,” she said at a press conference. “Let’s face what it is: It’s a distraction from the Mueller report.” 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico are “a distraction from the Mueller report.” https://t.co/ml0730Zhre pic.twitter.com/C0MQS7BnZD

— ABC News (@ABC) June 5, 2019

More Democrats have called for the House to begin impeachment proceedings for Trump after special counsel Robert Mueller said at a press conference last week that his 448-page report does not exonerate the president.

{mosads}He said that if his office “had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

The day after Mueller’s public remarks, Trump announced a 5 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico, starting June 10 “until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP.”

Vice President Pence on Wednesday is scheduled to meet with top Mexican officials who are hoping to persuade the Trump administration to reconsider the planned tariffs, which have drawn bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.