Obama guided Mueller’s team.
The irony is thick here, as Weissman was the lead prosecutor in Arthur Anderson. And got spanked by SCOTUS for misconduct in that case.
save for later
for those of us who are illiterate in law-speak, can someone explain in layman’s terms?? TIA
• False charges brought by overzealous prosecutor Andrew Weissmann (Robert Mueller’s right-hand man) in the case against leading accounting firm Arthur Andersen. Although the conviction was subsequently reversed unanimously by the Supreme Court, Andersen was completely destroyed, its 85,000 employees lost their jobs, and the assets of untold investors were wiped out. Weissmann was promoted by the DoJ.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/the_corrupt_doj_vs_the_people.html
“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.
Trump had a virtuous motive. Innocence and defense against a coup.
translation: Indictment would be an eight-year knock-down drag-out fight that we’d ultimately lose at SCOTUS anyway.
All of these arguments are pure sophistry. They had a predetermined goal to damage his presidency until they could gain the house.
The fact that Team Trump requested zero redactions and withheld zero of the requested documents and exerted zero Executive prerogative to keep anything hidden and allowed folks to be “interviewed” kind of makes it so anything Mueller tried to do via the “legal” system would have been dismissed with prejudice proves there were no crimes by those Mueller really wanted to get. He knew if he tried, it was game over for his beloved rabid Dems so he sprinkled Comey-ish tidbits into the report to ensure the Dems could have a lot of rotten meat to try to sink their teeth into.
I’m glad that they have also alienated AG Barr because he will have no pangs of conscience in delving into their own criminal acts/intents - which is why they now have to continue to try to smear and impugn him which sets that circle spinning out of their control.
They will choke on their own venom ...
Mueller’s team has skated on thin ice, and spring has arrived. Mueller is drowning.