Posted on 07/26/2018 9:42:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1
For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.
Those concerns now turn out to be well founded. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is scrutinizing tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to three people briefed on the matter.
Several of the remarks came as Mr. Trump was also privately pressuring the men both key witnesses in the inquiry about the investigation, and Mr. Mueller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by both intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry.
Mr. Mueller wants to question the president about the tweets. His interest in them is the latest addition to a range of presidential actions he is investigating as a possible obstruction case: private interactions with Mr. Comey, Mr. Sessions and other senior administration officials about the Russia inquiry; misleading White House statements; public attacks; and possible pardon offers to potential witnesses.
None of what Mr. Mueller has homed in on constitutes obstruction, Mr. Trumps lawyers said. They argued that most of the presidential acts under scrutiny, including the firing of Mr. Comey, fall under Mr. Trumps authority as the head of the executive branch and insisted that he should not even have to answer Mr. Muellers questions about obstruction.
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There is NO obstruction (POTUS was well within his rights/power to fire/remove Comey), period...move along!!
There are even some moderates and thinking democrats questioning why Mueller is still getting funding.
Haberman has an source within the Mueller team. I am sure that the 13 angry Dems are looking at everything to try to pin a crime on Trump. The firing of Comey is not obstruction of justice. The President has that authority under Article II of the Constitution. Trump has done nothing to impede the Mueller investigation. Just the opposite.
Anything but complete and total submission shall be construed as obstruction.
It’s like soon we will be approaching the singularity of Trump-Russia, when Mueller will investigate every move by Trump to defend himself against Mueller as evidence of obstruction.
Because the President of the United States has no First Amendment rights, you see?
I agree! HTF can you obstruct justice with a tweet? It’s ridiculous, while Rosentwit ACTIVELY obstructs justice by withholding evidence! effing amazing!
But it’s not a witch hunt...
The entire apparatus of Washington D.C. politics suffers from a strange en masse psychological condition. The more incompetent and stupid they are, the more arrogant and confident they become in their false perception of being brilliant in what they do. Bizarro world.
But it was no problem for the Clintons to obstruct and organize a propaganda campaign against Ken Starr while he was investigating them?
Really. That is how these morons work.
Mr. Mueller evidently believes he was appointed to investigate President Trump for any and all purposes which may occur to him. Time to put an end to this travesty!
Mueller could face unfortunate consequences targeting The Donald.
Or the NYT and its sources are.
Trump should immediately hire someone to wipe clean the last 30,000 tweets sent to 150,000,000 people just to make sure they remain private.
You mean like with a towel?
“But it was no problem for the Clintons to obstruct and organize a propaganda campaign against Ken Starr while he was investigating them?”
They will claim that was “patriotic”.
Unless Trump Twitters secret embedded messages in code hidden in his Tweets? "Strozk wears one red shoe, and the marigolds need water"
In the end, mueller can throw his musings to congress and let them try to do something with it. He can call a duck a porcupine, but that wont remove Trump from office. Only congress can do it and they wont based on the fart-thin case for collusion he’s assembling.
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