Mueller Report Finds Trump Tried to Control Russia Investigation

[babylonsister]

Mueller Report Finds Trump Tried to Control Russia Investigation
The effort included “non-public efforts to control [the Mueller probe], and efforts in both private and public to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation.”
Justin Miller,
Betsy Woodruff
04.18.19 9:34 AM ET


Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that President Trump tried to control the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and encouraged witnesses not to cooperate—but Attorney General William Barr decided that wasn’t a crime.

At a press conference ahead of the Mueller report’s release, Barr went out of his way to explain how he disagreed with Mueller’s legal theories and explain away Trump’s behavior. Barr proclaimed Trump’s innocence and justified the president’s actions as the understandable behavior of a man persecuted by political opponents.

But when the report was finally released to the public, it outlined 10 episodes of possible obstruction of justice by Trump, including: ordering James Comey to drop the FBI investigation into national security advisor Michael Flynn; directing the White House counsel to fire Mueller; dictating a message to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit the Mueller probe; telling witnesses publicly not to cooperate; having Cohen not contradict him in congressional testimony about Trump Tower Moscow.

“The president engaged in... conduct involving public attacks on the investigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both private and public to encourage witnesses not cooperate with the investigation.”
— Mueller Report

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/barr-to-release-redacted-mueller-report-on-trump-obstruction-russia-election-interference-collusion?ref=home

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, why is this not obstruction?

[ScratchCat]

2. That's what everyone will be asking

for the next week, and nobody is buying the "anger defense".

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Definition of obstruction?

[PDittie]

4. It's actually the definition of

'tried'.

As in, "The Russians hacked the election," versus "The Russians tried to hack the election".

And as Master Yoda said ...

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