Trump’s AG Lets Him Off The Hook For Obstruction Of Justice

One of the more concerning parts of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report is that Mueller left it up to the DOJ to decide whether or not to prosecute the President for obstruction of justice, and Trump’s new AG immediately said “no thanks.” The evidence of this crime has been right in front of our faces for a very long time, but the politicized DOJ wouldn’t allow any action on it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So while everyone in the Trump administration right now is taking their victory lap, patting themselves on the back, telling us that, hey, Democrats wasted 22 months of your time on this phony investigation that resulted had no charges against me or my kids. Uh, here's the thing though, it actually should have, and I'm not talking about collusion, is I've been saying for the longest time that would be damn near impossible to prove there was still a possibility you could have. But it's so hard to actually prove that, that there was almost no chance whatsoever they ever would have. So the no collusion finding is not surprising to me at all. What is surprising is the fact that there's no obstruction of justice. That's what should have happened if we got any charges out of this particular investigation, if they weren't looking at Trump's money than obstruction of justice would have been number one on that list.

And in fact, Robert Mueller said, hey, I, when he submitted his report, so I don't want to draw the lines here. So if you William Barr and Rod Rosenstein feel like there is enough evidence here to go forward with obstruction of justice charges be my guest, you're good to go. Here's my report, I'm out. And then William Barrr did exactly what Donald Trump hired William Barr to do. He didn't go for charges on obstruction of justice. That is exactly why William Barr is our attorney general today because Trump knew that if it came down to a Barr, if Mueller put the ball in Barr's court, he knew exactly what would happen and that's exactly what did happen. And that's exactly what all of us predicted would happen. Barr did nothing. In fact, what Barr did is actually, you know, borderline illegal malpractice because he said in his justification for not bringing charges on obstruction of justice, he said it's not that it wasn't there, but since Donald Trump wasn't charged with a crime, since they couldn't find collusion, which was the big crime, then how can you obstruct justice if there's no crime?

Right? I mean on its face, honestly, the kind of seems, if you know nothing about anything in the world, it seems like that's a good argument. Like, Hey, well, yeah, I mean, if I didn't do anything, how can I obstruct something? And the answer is very simple. Obstruction of justice does not depend on whether or not a crime has been committed. So William Barr, the attorney general of the United States, his own legal reasoning was flawed and incorrect. Yes, you can have obstruction of justice when you don't have an initial charge. If you impede a federal investigation in any way, that's obstruction of justice, even if you're not being the one who's being investigated. I could walk in, you know, stumble upon an investigation and intentionally obstructed if I knew what was happening, even if I wasn't a part of the investigation, I wasn't a target. I wasn't even somebody mentioned in it, I would still be capable of obstructing justice in that particular investigation.

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