Defending yourself from a fraudulent attack by people who give themselves power is not “obstruction”. It’s righteous fury.
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Either way, it doesn’t work that way against Law Enforcement and proprietorial authority.
By either way, I mean specific to the Trump collusion farce, where the power may be political, those who whole the investigative and prosecutorial power are inevitably going to see your “righteous fury” as proof of guilt. Obviously you have quite a bit of constitutional protection on your side against them prosecuting you for the actual crime being investigated, but that doesn’t stop the investigative harassment, nor the ability to prosecute your ‘fury’ as obstruction.
Even speaking generally, if a guilty man or an innocent man goes beyond lack of cooperation and begins working actively against investigators, the crime being investigated actually doesn’t matter in the question of obstruction. Now this seems like a travesty to the innocent, but it’s still common sense. For better or for worse, you’re stuck with it. Now I’m not saying Trump actually obstructed. It certainly appears that he didn’t. But you know the temptation was there. As I said, it’s human nature.
So perhaps there need to be more laws protecting the subjects of criminal investigations against such power being used to as tools for personal or political harassment, but the balance to that would obviously be not to make it harder to catch and prosecute real criminals.
From the Mueller report:
“During the press conference, Trump repeated, “I have nothing to do with Russia” five times. He stated that “the closest [he] came to Russia” was that Russians may have purchased a home or condos from him. He said that after he held the Miss America pageant in Moscow in 2013 he had been interested in working with Russian companies that “wanted to put a lot of money into developments in Russia” but “it never worked out.” He explained, “[f]rankly, I didn’t want to do it for a couple of different reasons. But we had a major developer...that wanted to develop property in Moscow and other places. But we decided not to do it.” The Trump Organization, however, had been pursuing a building project in Moscow - the Trump Tower Moscow project - from approximately September 2015 through June 2016, and the candidate was regularly updated on developments, including possible trips by Michael Cohen to Moscow to promote the deal and by Trump himself to finalize it.”
What in the hell does a press conference have to do with “obstruction of justice”? I was unaware the media qualified at law enforcement agencies.