“The president’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.”
Trump also ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to have Mueller removed, citing supposed conflicts of interest. “McGahn said he told the president that he would see what he could do,” the report states.
Later, Trump again directed McGahn to fire Mueller. McGahn threatened to resign rather than do so, and Trump backed down. But when news of the incident leaked to the press, Trump demanded that McGahn deny it—in other words, he instructed the White House’s top lawyer to lie. McGahn refused.
Mueller’s report also sheds new light on Trump’s efforts to hide the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between members of the Trump campaign and family and Russians. Mueller says there was no effort to conceal the matter from the special counsel, and therefore no evidence of a crime, but the incident shows Trump attempting to brazenly mislead the public.
You're joking, right? Please, for the love of God, tell me you are joking. No? Okay, let's go over these allegations - that is what they are, by the way, nothing more than allegations after the President allowed his lawyers to speak to the investigator, cited no privilege though all such communications were obviously privileged, provide more than 1,000,000 documents, and had dozens upon dozens of his staff talk to Mueller's team.
1. The efforts to "interfere" were unsuccessful only because of the brave resistance by [fill in name here]. No crime, no obstruction:
18 U.S.C. (that stands for "United States Code") § 1512.
Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant
(b) Whoever knowingly uses
intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2) cause or induce any person to—
(A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or
(3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,[1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
So the attempt to "influence" the investigation ... any evidence of intimidation, threats, or actions that rise to the level of forcible persuasion? No? No crime. No obstruction.
2. The request to have Mueller removed. Any evidence of any evidence of intimidation, threats, or actions that rise to the level of forcible persuasion? No? No crime. No obstruction. The President could fire Mueller at his will, and certainly did not need McGahan's approval - and yet amazingly did not do so.
3.Have McGahan deny the removal request ... again, that actually has nothing to do with the ******* investigation, does it, Tibs? And yet again ... any evidence of intimidation, threats, or actions that rise to the level of forcible persuasion? No? No crime. No obstruction.
4. No concealing the "Trump tower" meeting is evidence of collusion?? Again, this is a joke. Once again, any evidence of intimidation, threats, or actions that rise to the level of forcible persuasion? No? No crime. No obstruction.
