{"id":30963,"date":"2018-01-05T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30963"},"modified":"2018-01-05T12:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:57:58","slug":"obstruction-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/05\/obstruction-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstruction Confirmed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news on the Republican  crimes is coming out faster that I can keep track it, and Mueller’s possession of notes taken by Rancid Reince Priebus confirming how Trump harassed James Comey say he was not under investigation could be huge!  Here’s Michael Schmidt’s report on it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u2026The special counsel has received handwritten notes from Mr. Trump\u2019s former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, showing that Mr. Trump talked to Mr. Priebus about how he had called Mr. Comey to urge him to say publicly that he was not under investigation. The president\u2019s determination to fire Mr. Comey even led one White House lawyer to take the extraordinary step of misleading Mr. Trump about whether he had the authority to remove him.<\/p>\n

The New York Times has also learned that four days before Mr. Comey was fired<\/a>, one of Mr. Sessions\u2019s aides asked a congressional staff member whether he had damaging information about Mr. Comey, part of an apparent effort to undermine the F.B.I. director. It was not clear whether Mr. Mueller\u2019s investigators knew about this episode.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mueller has also been examining a false statement that the president reportedly dictated on Air Force One in July in response to an article in The Times about a meeting that Trump campaign officials had with Russians in 2016. A new book, \u201cFire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,\u201d by Michael Wolff, says that the president\u2019s lawyers believed that the statement was \u201can explicit attempt to throw sand into the investigation\u2019s gears,\u201d and that it led one of Mr. Trump\u2019s spokesmen to quit because he believed it was obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer dealing with the special counsel\u2019s investigation, declined to comment\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Trump also tried to order KKK Beauregard not to recuse himself, so he could "protect" Trump from the investigation.  Rachel Maddow<\/a> covered the story in detail in this interview with Michael Schmidt<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n