By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 19:06 BST, 9 June 2019 | Updated: 19:22 BST, 9 June 2019
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Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Sunday that Donald Trump 'has yet to be brought to justice' for 'potential crimes' he committed during the 2016 campaign and in the years since.
On ABC's 'This Week' program, the onetime U.S. Senate candidate and current White House hopeful agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's now infamous contention that the president belongs 'in prison.'
Asked if Trump commited crimes, O'Rourke responded that 'he did,' and claimed 'those crimes might extend beyond what we've seen in the Mueller report.'
Former special counsel Robert Mueller's report to the attorney general this spring concluded that Trump's campaign did not collude with Russian agents to win the 2016 election.
AG Bill Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, jointly determined that charging the president with obstruction of justice couldn't be supported based on the evidence Mueller collected over the space of nearly two years.
But O'Rourke, one of just two Democratic 2020 candidates to appear on the Sunday political talk shows,
