Mueller Report was never about Russia. Obstruction was always the Objective

Now that people are starting to absorb the intent and motivations of the Special Counsel investigation, it’s worth remembering Robert Mueller interviewed President Donald Trump six days after the FBI launched a criminal “obstruction of justice” investigation, and ten months after the FBI launched the counterintelligence investigation….

Liberals are idiots.

They were all panicking about Global Warming. Then Global Warming was proved to be a lie and a hoax, so they changed the narrative to Climate Change.

Same thing is happening here. They all had their panties in a wad over Collusion. That now also has been proven a lie and a hoax.

So now they are trying to change the narrative to “Obstruction”.

Blow it out your Obama-holes. We conservatives know a lie when we see one.

“level of ‘culpability” Is the key to the issue.

Too many attorneys getting this obstruction issue muddled up. Lemmee splain.

Mueller did not find an underlying crime in the collusion/conspiracy allegation.

That means that Trump’s push back, complaints, that is, any effort to derail the investigation must have a motive that is not corrupt.

However, if you are trying to cover up a crime or derail an investigation that discovers a crime....... Then you have obstruction.

The press and all the analysts are not being clear about that.

Now the House can try to vote to impeach for “high crimes and misdemeanors”.

Nadler can’t create a crime. Pelosi isn’t going to waste the House’s time on abstruse legal theories without cooperation from a Federal prosecutor.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1503
18 U.S. Code § 1503. Influencing or injuring officer or juror generally

(a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.

(b) The punishment for an offense under this section is—

(1) in the case of a killing, the punishment provided in sections 1111 and 1112;

(2) in the case of an attempted killing, or a case in which the offense was committed against a petit juror and in which a class A or B felony was charged, imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a fine under this title, or both; and

(3) in any other case, imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine under this title, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 769; Pub. L. 97–291, § 4(c), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1253; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60016, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1974, 2147; Pub. L. 104–214, § 1(3), Oct. 1, 1996, 110 Stat. 3017.)

Thanks for the reference. Good lead.

Yes, it was!!! I was in DC and overheard an FBI guy say exactly that last year. I tried very hard to alert people I thought would care, but since I’m nobody I don’t think anyone listened.

The goal appeared to be to poke Trump enough to get him to fight back and then trap him as obstruction for defending himself. With enough pressure everyone finally succumbs -— like putting Manafort in solitary, threatening the General’s family, and financially ruining just about everyone Mueller’s team touched. Like a sick cat-and-mouse game -— with enough pressure applied at the right points over a long enough time, the victim eventually squeals.

It’s a good thing I’m not President or a billionaire, or I would have so many investigators in Mueller and his team’s lives that I would know EVERYTHING they don’t want people to know, even what they hide in their underwear drawers!!! And then, I’m afraid I would go public will all their dirt. They have hurt so many people, may they fry forever in eternity!!!

Without an underlying crime there is nothing to “obstruct”.

So true, and missed by the alleged “ legal experts “ commenting on this.

Trump, rightfully recognized this early on and expressed his displeasure with Sessions not doing his job.

He had / has every right to be upset about this and the now certain continuation of Kabuki theater.

Mueller, et al, intentionally worded their finding to

1. give an excuse to get overpaid
2. create the pretense that The Russians needed to be investigated and prosecuted

Meanwhile the real obstruction lies in the whole Clinton email fiasco.

Evidence destroyed, laptops wiped, phones hammered.

Those to me are more serious that a person expressing displeasure , regardless of wording used, and exercising his rights when wrongfully accused by firing those he didn’t think were doing their jobs...

Muller also doesn’t want anything shifting back to Uranium One , his role, or the deep multiple tie ins with the Clintons, Lynch, Comey over the years and his “ friendship” with Comey which should have disqualified him in the first place.

Mueller Report was never about Russia. Obstruction was always the Objective.

I would like to agree with that, but not in the manner it was intended.

I believe that Hillary and others knew of her exposure to criminal charges. Something had to be done.

Rather than allow things to follow the natural course of events, they schemed to put Trump on the defensive, and even remove him from office if possible. But for one simple mistake, they would have.

Thus, it was not a case of catching Trump in obstruction. It was a case of setting up a political witch hunt that would prevent Trump's team from addressing criminal activity by Hillary and the Left.

I don't think a lot of folks really grasp that. It was clearly a case of obstruction, and an attempt at a coup all at the same time. Obstruction? Clearly!

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