“For all of those who have been asking, ‘where is the evidence of a crime?’ — this is it. This is the criminal conspiracy,” Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement. “Today’s indictments show precisely how the Russians worked to help the Trump campaign, in startling and extensive detail.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the investigation must go forward unobstructed and slammed Trump for sidestepping sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow for election meddling, while Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for the president to implement them “immediately” in a tweet.