Do you read what you post?
1) “I hope you can see your way to letting this go.” How is that pressuring Comey to end the probe on Flynn? Since when did "I hope" become synonymous with "I order"
2) Oh how horrible -- He wanted Sessions to do his job! Yup. Proof of guilt! And where did you get that he called Comey to tell him to push back publicly on the Trump/Russia collusion story? Even after Comey's firing and his giving testimony under oath against Trump, Comey never said that. Now maybe it was in his later book which was not written under oath.
3) Trump expressed dismay that Sessions recused himself to put a anti-Trumper at the head of the investigation. How is that obstruction? He said Mueller had a conflict of interest. Yup, he did. Now where did you get that his aides told him that the conflict of interest was groundless? When did his aides give testimony to such under oath?
4) So Trump thought the investigation was being done very unfairly and wanted his people to convey that? Many of us were of the same opinion that it was being conducted very unfairly with people publicly acknowledged to want Trump out as president. How does that obstruct the investigation?
5) Not to publicly disclose! Not give to the news! He did not say to keep it from the investigation. Sorry to have to inform you; but a special counsel investigation is not the same thing as a report by the media. As for the substance, since when is meeting with someone who might have something against a competitor candidate which might be helpful to the campaign; a crime! So since you think this is so bad, you must be apoplectic over the Steele opposition research which involved far more than meeting with people who might have dirt of an opposing candidate, but actually paying to dig up dirt.
6) So again he wanted Sessions to do the job he had been appointed to do and which he took a binding oath to do. That MUST be obstruction. After all, when does anyone expect a government official to actually do their job, and since when is an oath by a federal government official taken seriously?
7) What White House directive to remove Mueller. Please post it. In fact, if Trump wanted to fire Mueller he could have under the grounds Mueller had a conflict of interest. P**********l appointments come in two forms: those that require the approval of the Senate and those that do not. Aside from Cabinet secretaries and Supreme Court justices, whose nominations require the approval of the Senate, the President of the United States currently has the authority to appoint people to high-level positions within the federal government unilaterally. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Special Counsel is appointed by the Attorney General, who is in the executive branch under the President. "Grounds for removal are limited to “misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.” He had a serious conflict of interest!
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5271https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/attorney-generals-special-counsel-regulations/8) Sympathetic messages--positive messages? This is now obstruction?
9) Public sympathetic messages changed to castigation after Cohen was caught in lies (not just that Trump said so but he kept contradicting himself under questioning and in court), so it is not simply Trump's opinion. Did he threaten Cohen? Did he offer him any sort of bribe?
10) And the biggy. Comey fired!!!! Please look at your calendar. Comey was fired BEFORE the investigation began or was even in the works. So how could it be an attempt to obstruct the investigation?
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