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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So she quotes an Obama transition team lawyer, a Democrat senator, an anti-Trump nut job (George Conway, Kellyanne’s husband), and a former solicitor general who calls the current acting AG “fake”. These are her experts. Nice evenhanded reporting there WaPo...
Absolutely zero implication of reward, you morons.
Does anyone ever like short walks on the beach?
Oh, they got him this time. Illegal tweeting. /s
So are media pundits praising Comey for demanding public hearings guilty of witness tampering?
In other words it doesn't.
Mueller is covering up hitlery and Obama’s Russian collusion and treason. Uranium one, Iran and Russia. BJ got big donations to CF while at State, hitlery reset relations with Putin.
Always projecting, Hitlery et al are accusing Trump of the crimes that they committed. Mueller is doing the REAL obstructing and it’s outright sedition.
Mueller needs to hang.
Maybe, if you going surfing.
says Brooking’s Norman Eisen! lol.
Wikipedia: From 2007 to 2009, Eisen was active in the presidential campaign of his law school classmate Barack Obama before joining the transition team of then-President-elect Obama as deputy counsel. On January 20, 2009, Obama named him Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform in the White House...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_L._Eisen
The world is upside down.
Way back in the summer of 2016, Robbie Mook, Hillary’s campaign chairman, went on CNN and said several times that “experts say” that Trump worked with the Russians. It was the first time that I had heard this variation on “sources say.” It was so strange that I remembered it. Look what it has led to with all the Mueller garbage.
Mueller is illegal.
He is the ringleader of a real conspiracy to overthrow an elected President to protect his participation in the Clinton
Putin Uranium Scam. My guess is he as well as swamp rats in both parties got a cut of that deal and that is why they are protecting him.
They are stealing YOUR votes, YOUR president, and YOUR country. They are blatant about it and under Obama stuffed government agencies and the Courts which their equally corrupt agents who are participating in this.
The only question is WHAT are the American people going to do about it?
Why are we pimping Jeff Bezos’ nasty little fake-news blog?
She has the same weird grimace as Occasional-Cortex.
He is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, and any "line" is a myth.
He draws the lines.
“Obstruction” of WHAT?
The WaaaaaPooo has put out several whiny stories recently. They must be nervous about something.
Well at least Clinton never fought back.
Just handle them like Obama handled house subpoenas. Ignore them, no trouble.
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