Mueller
concluded that Congress could make "obstruction-of-justice statutes applicable to corruptly motivated official acts of the president" without infringing on Mr. Trump's constitutional rights, according to the
redacted report released Thursday. CBS News
His group dedicated a couple hundred pages to documenting those acts, beyond his statements to James Comey, incluuding repeated instances of interference in the investigation, both publicly and behind the scenes, including pressuring DOJ officials and requesting several people to lie regarding actions he requested they take when they refused his initial request. Obstruction of justice does not actually require acts or action, all a prosecutor need do is to prove criminal intent. It also does not turn on the investigation of the potential crime being proven true with respect to the action taken to obstruct.
I'm confused: President Obama confronted Vladimir Putin via the "red phone" with the body of evidence that US intelligence had in-in hand at the time, warning him to cease the efforts. This was followed by eventual seizure of property(Russian resort compound on the east coast), sanctions, and sending a couple dozen Russian diplomats home. I realize Faux News likes to gloss over these acts; why they do not rate as an accurate and truthful news source. No, I am not a CNN listener, either.
What sweeeeeeeeeeeeeping measures has DJT taken to make sure that this level of intrusion into our national election process will not happen again? I can tell you what he, and Congressional Republicans have blocked via their majority,. prior the mid-term elections. All punitive actions taken post-election have been initiated via Congress. Think about that for awhile.
Apparently, you opt to miss-remember DJT's statements at the Helsinki, Finland summit following his direct conversation with Putin -you, know, the one where no other US official was allowed to be present and the interpreter's notes were withheld from Congress once they were requested. If that is appropriate presidential conduct in your eyes, we have very different standards and expectations of a sitting president when in direct communication with our principal adversary. Vilifying this country's intelligence agencies and denying their consensus conclusions and advice is not acceptable, to me, and about 60% of the voting public in this country.
I would, again, encourage you to read the report, not some talking head's interpretation of it.
I think potential crimes of money laundering, miss-statements and falsification of financial documents as well as tax documents, miss-use of funds for a 501(c)3 non-profit, violations of the campaign finance laws involving accepting money from foreign governments, etc. are quite serious, and if proven true via a chain of evidence indicate the behavior of a chronic criminal. You and I have different standards of behavior and conduct that we hold our chief executive to, if you view these as inconsequential. All of these investigations have been deemed supportable via initial evidence within the Federal courts system. That in itself does not support your contention that they constitute a witch hunt. Overall, yes, his finances do have everything to do with a variety of collusion, just not collusion with the Russian government or their representatives to aid in securing election to the presidency, which Meuller's team documented that the Russians repeatedly offered help and aid, but DJT, did not seek them out and never followed through on the contacts and meetings that did occur.
I also find it oddly coincidental that DJT's older sister, a Federal judge, just opted to retire from the bench when she was challenged with a financial wrongdoing investigation of her families tax payments and finances, effectively blocking that inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/us/maryanne-trump-barry-misconduct-inquiry.html
There is a fascinating piece that Frontline ran, titled The Choice. In it the authors outline those factors in the life of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump that had major influences on who the came to be, both in terms of accomplishments and individual personality. I was shocked to discover that Roy Cohn, was hired by DJT's father to guide and provide counsel to DJT when he started his real estate career. Mr. Cohn was a thoroughly despicable man who served as counsel during the McCarthy hearings. He used his position to threaten to expose young men by threatening to expose them as homosexuals unless they accepted his advances., a truly gruesome sexual predator, miss-user of the law, serial liar, and swine of the first order who destroyed countless lives and careers during those hearings. This is the man Mr. Trump chose to guide his son's actions and behavior in business.
Four hundred forty-eight pages of documentation does not meet the definition of "made up". The Mueller investigation's overall cost is the equivalent of four presidential trips to Mar-a-Lago...which DJT spent via his "excursions" in the first six months of his presidency: one one-thousandth of the cost of the four new aircraft carriers DJT has decided to build and deploy, despite our new 1.2 trillion dollar deficit, created courtesy of his 'beautiful tax cuts', which "sunset" for the middle class in six years. They required 3% plus economic growth to pay for themselves, as projected by Mrs. Ross and Munichin and guaranteed by Larry Kudlow. Real world economists were not as rosey...and they turned out to be right. How odd.
"Curiouser and curiouser.".. Charles Dodgson aka "Lewis Carroll"
