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Posted on 12/03/2018 4:56:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning, haranguing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and witnesses to his ongoing Russia investigation. His tweets have become a common morning occurrence, particularly in recent weeks. But legal experts are calling Monday’s missives a newsworthy development that amounts to evidence of obstructing justice.
Trump’s first statement went out after Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney who pleaded guilty last week for lying to Congress about the president’s real estate project in Russia. In his tweet, Trump alleged that Cohen lied to Mueller and called for a severe penalty, demanding that his former fixer “serve a full and complete sentence.”
After the overt attack on Cohen came a tweet encouraging Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump, not to become a witness against him:
“’I will never testify against Trump.’ This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about ‘President Trump.’ Nice to know that some people still have ‘guts!’”
Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that the most striking thing about Monday was that there were two statements in proximity.
“It comes very close to the statutory definition of witness tampering,” he said. “It’s a mirror image of the first tweet, only he’s praising a witness for not cooperating with the implication of reward,” he said, adding that Trump has pardon power over Stone.
“We’re so used to President Trump transgressing norms in his public declarations,” Eisen said, “but he may have crossed the legal line.”
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—— But legal experts are calling Monday’s missives a newsworthy development that amounts to evidence of obstructing justice.——
What legal experts ?
What is the “reward” for Stone, that the Washington Post claims is implied by Trump’s tweet?
Does he mean to say that crossing a legal line is illegal, or can be used to hold someone accountable, in Washington D.C.?
I have been thinking about all the verified illegalities that have been committed by the DOJ officials and Intelligence officials and in times past, it would have been enough to put people in prison for a very long time.
Sara Carter and John Solomon can come out with bombshell after bombshell, and they are bombshells; the conservative commentators hit the ceiling on the air, and then drop them.
Republican Congressmen mention them and say they are “disturbing” and then drop them.
Also, Bush 41's funeral may have postponed the Huber Report release.
All the Rat media can do is try to pre-empt President Trump with crap like this article.
Dayum! She can write negative crap about me all she wants!
Well, it he wasn’t commenting on this weird constitutional bohunkus of a Special Counsel (Prosecutor?) I’d agree.
Don’t want him talking that way anout normal Constitutional justice cases.
“It’s illegal for a Republican President to fight back. “
Yeah, that’s the crux.
Legal gibberish.
Unless it would be illegal for a defendant’s lawyer to make exactly the same statements about the police and/or the prosecutors involved in his case, Trump has not done or said anything illegal.
The babbling nabobs of Bull Shit can just STFU.
“But legal experts say...(spit)
So its now illegal to tweet out disdain for a BOGUS investigation that was created as an excuse as to why the Commie left lost an election they all believed was owed to them..well okie dokie then
Trump used to be a favorite celebrity for liberals, but ever since 2016, he is persona non grata to democrats, and every thing he does is dangerous and illegal, including his ‘illegal’ winning of the presidency. Heck, if democrats decided to investigate Trump’s entire life, everything he did was illegal, including being born.
The little fascist piggy, Norman Eisen, should worry more about getting arrested for treason.
Judge Napalitano on Fox? I think he's batting about 2% these days.
So it isn't obstructing justice. It "amounts," that is to say, in somebody's opinion it might be tantamount to, not "obstructing justice," but "evidence of obstructing justice."
In plain English, bollocks.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The leadership of the rats/socialists are already saying to back off the impeachment dreams. Mueller's report will try to massage Flynn's, Manafort's, and Cohen's perjury traps into a vague connection to Trump by association. It will go nowhere other than to give fodder to the whiny cable channels for weeks or months. Mark my words.
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