nwtk2007 wrote:
LOL! So give me an example and a page number in the report. In fact, you said numerous. Page numbers please.
Now, do you think "attempted" obstruction will become an issue the day after trump is no longer a sitting president?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/politics/trump-staff-lying-presidency/index.htmlThe first years of President Donald Trump's tenure were marked by chaotic attempts among aides to thwart his efforts to curtail the special counsel's investigation, according to Robert Mueller's redacted report, an exercise that relied on subterfuge and deceit that does little to dispel the sense of disarray reigning at the White House.
Trump is depicted in the report as entirely consumed by the probe, which he bemoaned would be the "end of my presidency." One aide said the matter of Russian interference was his "Achilles heel." The resulting West Wing atmosphere was one marred by conflict and governed by deception.
Portraits of the Trump administration as an untidy collection of warring advisers, overseen by an impetuous boss, have been frequent over the past two years. Frayed departing staffers have affirmed those accounts.
But Mueller's report provides a cinematic view of the disorder, recounted through named interviews delivered under criminal penalty of lying to the FBI. Trump is depicted as foul-mouthed and loyalty obsessed, ringed by aides who shrugged off his orders, scoffed at the "crazy sh**" he was demanding, and carried resignation letters with them constantly.
"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests," Mueller wrote in the report.
At the eye of the storm were members of Trump's family, including Donald Trump Jr., daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Others at his side included Hope Hicks, his onetime communications chief; Sarah Sanders, his press secretary; campaign aide Corey Lewandowski, who did not join the White House staff but continued to act as a trusted confidant; and Don McGahn, the White House counsel who sat for more than 30 hours of testimony with Mueller's investigators.
Meanwhile, his former lawyer Michael Cohen is depicted as a constant presence during the campaign who dramatically fell from favor once he began cooperating with the special counsel's office. Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman who is now a convicted felon, is written off by Trump as an ineffective operative. Jeff Sessions, Trump's first attorney general, is portrayed as constantly under siege to the point he brought a resignation letter every time he met with Trump