Robert De Niro Stars in New Video of Fmr Prosecutors Saying Trump Obstructed Justice

[highplainsdem]

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/multiple-former-federal-prosecutors-reiterate-belief-that-trump-obstructed-justice-video/

Twenty-four days ago, hundreds of former federal prosecutors who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations signed their names on a letter asserting that if Donald Trump wasn’t the President of the United States he would been charged for obstruction of justice. The list of hundreds has since grown to more than a 1,000.

Trump nemesis, actor Robert De Niro, headlined a new NowThis video featuring some of the former federal prosecutors who endorsed the letter (Renato Mariotti, Elie Honig, Jennifer Rodgers, Mimi Rocah, Roland Ripoelle, and Jacob Buchdahl, to name a few. In it, they re-read the substance of the letter and its conclusions. The video is released the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller did something similar. Mueller made a rare public statement for the purpose of saying out loud what he had already written in his publicly available report. Among the things Mueller said was that charging the president was never an option because of DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president.

Mueller said that a sealed or unsealed charging document would have been unconstitutional. Instead, the constitutional remedy is impeachment.

But the former federal prosecutors we’ve mentioned read Mueller’s reasoning on this well before he repeated it publicly; they concluded before that the “conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.”

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This is the NowThis tweet with the video:

Link to tweet

Editing to add the YouTube video:

[hlthe2b]

1. A real treasure... Rob Reiner too. Kicked and highly recommended. Should be on continuous tv loop

Last edited Thu May 30, 2019, 02:29 PM - Edit history (2)

Thank you, Bob.

Hell, if we can't have Mueller immediately, bring DeNiro, Reiner, many of these prosecutors in to read the Mueller report in live session.

[highplainsdem]

2. Thanks for the kick and rec! And I love your idea for having these people read the Mueller report

in live session if we can't have Mueller himself there.

[BSdetect]

3. k&r

The DOJ has no legislative authority that supersedes Congress.