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Holder: Any Competent Prosecutor Could Win Trump Obstruction Case

posted onApril 20, 2019
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Article snippet: “ANY competent public corruption prosecutor would bring obstruction charges against Trump/and win. Only reason Mueller did not was because of the flawed DOJ [Justice Department] restriction against indicting a sitting President. He said so (below). Congress now has a constitutional responsibility,” Holder wrote on Twitter. Holder’s remarks come after the Justice Department on Thursday released the long-awaited report, with redactions, which specifies the two-year Russia investigation and details how the team found no evidence of collusion involving the Trump campaign before the 2016 election. Mueller laid out ten episodes in which President Trump directed others to influence or curtail the Russia investigation after the special counsel’s appointment in May 2017. “With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice,” the 448-page report reads. Team Mueller said those efforts “were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Friday issued a subpoena for Mueller’s report as Congress escalates its investigation of President Donald Trump. “It now falls to Congres... Link to the full article to read more

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