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Yes, President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, but Trump has obstructed their efforts every step of the way. This was obstruction in the interests of justice. The president should be applauded for it. First, partisans within the Justice Department spied on the Trump presidential campaign. They used a mainstream news article to obtain a warrant to surveil Trump’s campaign staff by misleading a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge about the source of the article. In fact, the news story was based on unverified opposition research funded by...

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday morning to criticize the Obama administration's response to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Trump said in a series of tweets that former President Barack Obama did "nothing" after the CIA first informed him of Russian interference in August 2016 because "he expected [Hillary] Clinton would win" and did not want to "rock the boat." "He didn't ‘choke,' he colluded or obstructed," Trump wrote.