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I'm not saying that we necessarily didn't find evidence because Trump obstructed the investigation. Maybe he was innocent of collusion and obstructed to prevent
by daveFNbuck 7y ago
I'm not saying that we necessarily didn't find evidence because Trump obstructed the investigation. Maybe he was innocent of collusion and obstructed to prevent us from finding out about other crimes or embarrassing things. Maybe he had other reasons.
The point is that we don't know what we weren't able to learn because of his obstruction. Maybe it was just an unsuccessful attempt to cover up the things we did learn about. Those were certainly bad enough, but trying to cover them up could have prevented us from getting enough information to determine that his campaign wasn't colluding with Russia.
- zaroth 7y agoThe strongest case that Mueller’s team could find to establish a charge of obstruction was Trump’s conversation with Comey where Comey said that Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” You can argue if that is obstruction or not, but I don’t see how it impedes the investigation to hope someone is not charged with a process crime.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoClicking through some of the search results for "obstruction", I found he directed encouraged Flynn and Manafort to not testify (page 131). Do you agree that people refusing to cooperate with an investigation impedes it?