Special Counsel Jack Smith wants to force one of Trump’s lawyers to testify about a phone call he had with the former president related to classified documents.
Donald Trump has quite a day on Wednesday. After deciding not to attend a meeting of Republicans in Gettysburg, PA, he called the phone of lawyer Rudy Giuliani. As the lawyer held the phone up to a microphone, Trump begged for the 2020 election results to be overturned. After his widely mocked phone call, Trump…
Trump attacked his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday morning and in the process admitted that he obstructed justice.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) said Democrats have three potential articles for Trump impeachment, extortion, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice.
The Mueller report revealed Lewandowski knew what he was doing was wrong regarding helping Trump obstruct justice.
A federal judge has made a voicemail of Trump’s lawyer obstructing justice in the Michael Flynn case public.
The White House asked Don McGahn to lie for Trump on obstruction of justice twice in the last month in an effort to calm the president down.
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday an agreement had been reached to have Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify to Congress on his probe into Russian election interference and possible attempts by the President Donald Trump to impede the probe.
Trump is facing a dangerous situation on obstruction as former White House counsel Don McGahn is viewed as a credible witness by Democrats and Republicans.
The pre-Easter weekend news dump of the Mueller report failed. We all heard AG Barr’s pre-emptive strike – a highly unusual presser where he actually trotted out the idea that being frustrated is a defense when one is suspected of conspiring with a hostile foreign power to cheat his way to victory in an election….
In April we reported that Alan Dershowitz believes the president is above the law. On Tuesday night the former Harvard law professor went on CNN to give another ridiculous opinion, saying that he believes it is legal for the president to obstruct justice. Dershowitz has been one of President Trump’s strongest supporters in recent months,…
Trump proved that he is own worst enemy by going on a Twitter tirade against his own attorney general even though Special Counsel Robert Mueller is already investigating him for trying to obstruct justice through Jeff Sessions. Trump tweeted: Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration…
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace dropped a bombshell. Trump is bringing in impeachment lawyer Emmett Flood to assert executive privilege and not answer any of Robert Mueller’s questions about obstruction of justice.
“It gins up [Trump’s] base and it may help him politically, but legally it’s of no moment. … I think the Republicans over-promised and under-delivered with their memo.”
All of the interviews shown in the clip took place after Trump reportedly ordered White House counsel to remove Mueller from his post.
“See, the whole plot to destroy the Trump presidency is about a disgruntled former golfer who didn’t like his greens fees and he held onto the grudge for years.”
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee said two words about Trump’s behavior in relation to firing Comey that should terrify the White House. Schiff’s talked about the potentially corrupt intent behind the president’s actions.
According to the New York Times, “Mr. McGahn was unsuccessful, and the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him.”
The new details continue to build the obstruction case against Trump, but they also increase the likelihood that the president and his GOP apologists will escalate their war on the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller.
“He is not a king! He is a president in a constitutional model of government.”
The case for obstruction of justice against this president continues to grow, and it may have just reached a point of no return.
“What if it’s not Robert Mueller who gets fired? What if it’s Rod Rosenstein or Jeff Sessions, either of whom could start the process that would result in the end of the Mueller investigation?”
It’s not a good place for the White House to be when their only remaining argument in defense of Donald Trump is that he is above the law.
Trump is doing his best to hand Robert Mueller and congressional investigators an open-and-shut obstruction of justice case against him.
“For him to be interviewing candidates for that prosecutor who may in turn consider whether to bring indictments involving him and his administration seems to smack of political interference.”
“They’re going to get somebody, and they’re going to get him for something. And they’re probably going to go to jail.”
Trump’s tweets about “witch hunts” aren’t only reflections of presidential paranoia. They are part of a deeper strategy to discredit the man investigating him for obstruction of justice.
Donald Trump’s fans and conservative pundits describe his mess of a “foreign policy” as transactional. Trump’s supporters claim this is part of his “genius” during their more intense “dear leader” moments.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is pushing for the House to investigate Trump for obstruction of justice as the news only gets worse for the President.
While signing an executive order related to apprenticeships, Trump ignored questions about reporters on the obstruction of justice investigation.
President Trump confirmed on social media that he is under investigation for obstruction of justice because he doesn’t understand that tweets are official statements and evidence that can be used against him.
Former US Attorney Preet Bharara told ABC’s This Week that he believes that there is enough evidence to begin an investigation of President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in relation to the firing of James Comey.
Murphy didn’t explicitly call for the impeachment of the president, but his comments suggest that Democrats are becoming more comfortable heading down that road.
America is waiting to hear what Former FBI Director James Comey will say during in Congressional testimony.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being potentially investigated by the Russia investigation special counsel for obstruction of justice related to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Holding the president accountable for trying to block an investigation – a criminal act – doesn’t jive well with Trump’s supporters.
Weeks after taking office, President Trump reportedly called former FBI Director James Comey to ask when federal authorities would publicly state that he wasn’t under investigation, according to yet another Comey bomb dropped by Mike Schmidt.