The federal government is charging a Massachusetts judge and a courtroom officer with obstruction of justice after the pair allegedly helped a twice-deported illegal alien escape out the back door while an immigration enforcement officer was kept outside the front door.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said Robert Mueller’s openness to obstruction of justice accusations against President Donald Trump amounted to his “final act of abuse of power,” offering his remarks in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder claimed Friday that any “competent” prosecutor would be able to make a successful obstruction of justice case against President Trump based on the findings outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Mueller’s list of ten “obstruction” examples is so underwhelming, so frivolous and desperate, he stands alone as the only prosecutor in history to have ten pieces of “evidence” and no case.
Mark Penn — Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist during her 2008 presidential campaign — writes special counsel Robert Mueller’s report vindicates those who affirmed no collusion occured between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, and the investigation should have never considered the question of obstruction.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow argued that if special counsel Robert Mueller indeed had an obstruction case to make against President Donald Trump, he would have done so in the report.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said during a press conference Thursday that he needs special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress, because “we cannot believe” what Attorney General (AG) William Barr “tells us.”
During a press conference on Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) accused Attorney General William Barr of being “misleading” and stated that the Mueller report lays out “disturbing evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice and
Barr and Rosenstein found no obstruction of justice, partly because the president’s actions had “non-corrupt motives.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” House Intelligence Committee member Mike Quigley (D-IL) stated that “There is obvious evidence, in plain sight, and in previous court filings, of collusion and obstruction.” Quigley said, “[I]t’s very cold comfort to the American
Ken Starr told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump “never interfered” with Robert Mueller’s investigation.
The Mueller report did not find President Donald Trump colluded with Russia or obstructed justice, but probes into Trump will continue.
Top Justice Department officials knew for weeks that special counsel Robert Mueller would not reach a conclusion on whether President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation, torpedoing accusations of a rushed decision by Attorney General William Barr regarding the matter, according to a report.
President Donald Trump’s adviser and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends Monday morning that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, needed to resign after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that the Trump campaign had not colluded with the Russian government.
CBS live TV broadcast of it’s March Madness NCAA basketball championship was interrupted for millions of viewers on Sunday with a live news update that Donald Trump did not, nor did members of the Trump Campaign conspire or coordinate “with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” according to a letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress Sunday summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 presidential election.
Attorney General William Barr sent Congress a letter Sunday summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 presidential election, and found there was no collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, “despite several efforts” by Russian agents or intermediaries.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Congress can impeach PresidentTrump for matters that are not crimes, and also for alleged acts that he claims Trump committed before becoming president, rejecting key limits that the Framers of the Constitution placed on Congress’s impeachment power.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that the committee’s “goal is to hold the administration accountable for the obstruction of justice, the abuse of power, and the corruption.” He added that the committee
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks wondered whether if there is an obstruction of justice case against President Trump, political norms in the United States have changed so that obstruction of justice isn’t politically fatal like it was
Special counsel Robert Mueller did not ask President Trump to answer any questions about obstruction of justice, according to Axios.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) argued that if President Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, it would be to have someone who will interfere in the Mueller probe and this would be obstruction of justice.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated President Trump is “dangerously close” to committing obstruction of justice when he “starts trying to influence” Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Durbin said when the president “starts
While speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) reacted to President Trump’s tweet from earlier in the day where the president called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the Russia probe by stating that if the
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Judiciary Committee member Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated he welcomed Republicans on the committee bringing back former FBI Director James Comey to testify before the committee and he welcomes Comey telling “his story
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) stated President Trump is “obstructing an investigation into his campaign where he is potentially a suspect. The consequences, of course, are removal from office.” Swalwell also stated that the House
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that the “threats and intimidation” against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein by Republican members of Congress are “arguably obstruction of justice.” Blumenthal said President Trump’s tweet that he’ll have
The questions special counsel Robert Mueller intends to ask President Trump are focused more on obstruction of justice than Russia collusion, according to a list provided to Trump’s lawyers from special counsel investigators and leaked to the New York Times.
“There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap),” he wrote on Twitter.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that the president has the legal power to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, but he has made “a pre-admission that if he fired Mueller or Rosenstein, that would be an obstruction of justice. It would be a crime.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) stated that there are other Congressional Republicans who believe that President Trump firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller without cause would be obstruction of justice, but haven’t said so publicly.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump’s lawyers, Axios reported Monday.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly close to wrapping up the obstruction of justice part of his inquiry, but contemplating putting it aside until other parts are completed.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf received over 1,000 “angry calls” in protest against her decision last weekend to warn illegal aliens of an impending raid by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former US Attorney General Eric Holder argued that there is an obstruction of justice case against President Trump and Tom Steyer is correct that President Trump is “derelict in his duties.” Holder stated,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley responded to a New York Times op-ed by Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Chairman Norman Eisen, American Constitution Society
President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal funds Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign — and his administration — through the 2019 fiscal year, despite the repeated assurances by White House lawyer Ty Cobb that the inquiry would end soon.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) argued that President Trump’s refusal to release the Democratic House Intelligence memo and “blanket release” of the Nunes memo “is more evidence obstruction of justice.” Blumenthal said, “There is a
According to the well-regarded Rasmussen poll (by way of Jim Hoft, who first connected these dots), President Trump’s job approval rating sits at a healthy 48 percent. At this exact time in his own presidency (February 7, 2010), Barack Obama’s job approval rating was just 44 percent. That puts Trump at +4 over Obama.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated reports that President Trump moved to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller are a reflection of the fact that “the president has been obstructing justice all throughout his first
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) reacted to reports from the New York Times and Washington Post that President Trump moved to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller are “further evidence” in a “credible case of obstruction of justice
