Defending yourself from a fraudulent attack by people who give themselves power is not “obstruction”. It’s righteous fury.
Also, I’m sure when you receive a letter from the IRS your first reaction is “gee, it’s going to be a great day”.....
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.
Only if you have an (R) after your name, then everything you do, think, or say, in any context at all is wrong.