MUELLER WIMPED OUT! HE HAD EVIDENCE THAT TRUMP INTERFERED IN THE DOJ’S EFFORT TO FIND THAT RUSSIA INTERFERED IN 2016 TO GET TRUMP ELECTED AND YET DEFERRED TO A POLICY, NOT A LAW, THAT A SITTING PRESIDENT CANNOT BE PROSECUTED. THAT LEGAL BLUNDER BEGAN A ten-YEAR ASSAULT BY TRUMP ON OUR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION PROCESS, LAWS, AND ETHICS. THE INTERFERENCE IS NOW MORE EMBOLDENED, ILLEGAL, AND DANGEROUS TO OUR FREEDOMS.
These autocratc, unlawful tactis to rig elections have turn out to be extra unlawful, harmful, and racist. Creating pretend electors, racist gerrymandering, large company donors, and threats of ICE voter intimidation now aligns our election course of with autocracies and dictatorships.
MUELLER’S 10 FINDINGS ON HOW TRUMP INTERFERED WITH THE DOJ INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIA AND THE TRUMP CONNECTION ( from AP Information, Mark Sherman, 2018)
PRESSURE ON COMEY TO END PROBE OF MICHAEL FLYNN
The president’s assertion to then-FBI Director James Comey concerning the investigation of then-national safety adviser Michael Flynn. Trump advised Comey: “I hope you possibly can see your technique to letting this go.”
PRESIDENT’S REACTION TO THE CONTINUING RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
Among the many proof is the president telling then-White Home counsel Don McGahn to cease Lawyer Common Jeff Periods from recusing himself from the Russia investigation and Trump’s push again publicly on the suggestion that Trump had any connection to the Russian election-interference effort.
FIRING OF COMEY AND AFTERMATH
Mueller’s report says “substantial proof” signifies Trump’s resolution to fireplace Comey in Could 2017 was the results of the FBI director’s unwillingness to say publicly that Trump was not personally beneath investigation.
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APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL AND EFFORTS TO REMOVE HIM
Trump reacted to information of Mueller’s appointment by telling advisers that it was “the top of his presidency.” Trump referred to as then-White Home counsel Don McGahn at house and directed him to have Mueller eliminated. McGahn refused.
FURTHER EFFORTS TO CURTAIL THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’s INVESTIGATION
Trump instructed former marketing campaign supervisor Corey Lewandowski to have Periods publicly announce that, however his recusal from the Russia investigation, the investigation was “very unfair” to the president, the president had finished nothing flawed.
EFFORTS TO PREVENT PUBLIC DISCOSURE OF EVIDENCE
In summer time of 2017, Trump realized that the information media deliberate to report on the June 2016 assembly at Trump Tower between senior marketing campaign officers and Russians providing derogatory details about Hillary Clinton. The president directed aides to not disclose the emails organising the assembly publicly.
ADDITIONAL EFFORTS TO HAVE SESSIONS TAKE CONTROL OF INVESTIGATION
At a number of factors in between July 2017 and December 2017, Trump tried to get Periods to declare that he was now not recused from the Russia investigation and would assert management over it. The report says there’s proof that one function of asking Periods to step in was in order that the legal professional basic would limit the investigation’s scope.
TRUMP ORDERS WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL TO DENY THAT PRESIDENT TRIED TO FIRE MUELLER
In an Oval Workplace assembly in February 2018, Trump advised McGahn to “appropriate” a New York Occasions story that reported Trump had earlier instructed McGahn to fireplace Mueller.
TRUMP’S ACTIONS TOWARD, FLYNN, MANAFORT AND OTHER POSSIBLE WITNESSES
When Flynn started cooperating with prosecutors, Trump handed phrase by means of his lawyer that he nonetheless had heat feeling for Flynn and requested for a “heads up” if Flynn knew of data implicating Trump. Trump praised Manafort throughout and after his prison convictions, and refused to rule out a pardon.
TRUMP ACTIONS TOWARD MICHAEL COHEN
Mueller famous that Trump’s conduct towards Cohen, a former Trump Group govt, modified from reward to castigation after Cohen started cooperating with prosecutors. The proof might “help an inference.
Disgrace on the v orrupt GOP Congress and Supreme Courtroom for aiding within the destruction of our Democracy
KAMALA HARRIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ATTORNEY GENERAL, NOT MERRITT GARLAND. WE NEEDED A PROSECUTOR, NOT A JUDGE, TO DEAL WITH TRUMP THE CRIMINAL.
