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Trump's tweet today was very interesting. Trump is setting the rhetoric that he fired Comey based on Rosenstein's report. Perhaps he senses Mueller is coming after him using Lester Holt's interview to establish obstruction of justice, where Trump claims:
>Yes Russia firing was on my mind
>I would have fired Comey anyways
How strong of a case would Mueller have to obstruct justice using that interview?
To both, Trump has strong defense. Trump can claim that while Russia was on his mind, he knew firing Comey wouldn't interrupt the investigation.
For the second point, Trump has a basis as he sensed Comey was playing a political game with Trump by not revealing he was not under investigation to the press. Comey simply was not being honest and had an anti-Trump agenda, which Trump's lawyers can paint very easily.
What does /pol/ think. /pol/ is always right, so I need to get your opinion.
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The goal of Trump's enemies is not to impeach him but to throw enough dirt so he either resigns or won't be reelected in 2020. So the whole OoJ thing is merely irrelevant in my opinion.
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>>130222824
Zero.
1. DOJ can't charge a sitting president
2. No obstruction statute applies to firing someone because you want an investigation closed.
3. It's the executives prerogative to close an investigation.
One obstruction statute requires impeding a grand jury. There was no grand jury at the time.
Another requires actually taking a step in impeding an official proceeding. Firing Comey changed nothing with respect to the investigation and an FBI investigation isn't an official proceeding.
The last obstruction statute deals with destroying evidence. There was no destroyed evidence.
Finally all of these statutes require proving intent to obstruct beyond a reasonable doubt.
Nixon was going to be impeached for destroying the tapes and actively participating in a conspiracy to protect the watergate break-in perpetrators.
Clinton instructed Monica Lewinsky to give false testimony.
Trump "hoped" that an investigation would be closed.
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