This was the last paragraph i read and it is rather important so I am going to repeat it.
Third,
many of the President's acts directed at witnesses, including discouragement of cooperation with
the government and suggestions of possible future pardons, took place in public view. That
circumstance is unusual, but no principle of law excludes public acts from the reach of the
obstruction laws. If the likely effect of public acts is to influence witnesses or alter their testimony,
the harm to the justice system's integrity is the same.
Trump is continuing to obstruct justice before our very eyes. He is telling witnesses to the US Congress to disobey subpoenas. That is a continuance of a behavior and abuse of power throughout the entire investigation into Russia's assault on the USA election system.
The obstruction of justice Trump carries out is in public view. it is still in public view. There is just no doubt he commits these crimes, but the real issue is political. By carrying out crimes in public view he confuses the electorate and today is proof of his maniacal mind and CALCULATED influence.
Interestingly enough, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is aware of these acts by Trump and is fully aware of the influence this confusion carries out on the electorate. To go forward with very appropriate measures to impeach will result in adverse opinions of the Democrats of the US House. This is why Congresspersons need to return to their districts and hold town hall meetings and push back on the effects of Trump's disruption of the people in understanding that crime is wrong.
...no principle of law excludes public acts from the reach of the obstruction laws.
This is probably the most important statement in the Executive Summary of Volume II of the Special Counsel's report. The Special Counsel validated that even though the public act of crimes is a strange occurrence, the fact they have happened does not preclude them from being crimes.
Donald J. Trump is a criminal. He publically encouraged thinking he would provide pardons to his comrades and helpers and fixers that committed crimes with him, but, are not immune as he is because of one and only one reason, the DOJ has a rule that must be challenged in court. Donald J. Trump is a criminal and currently ABOVE THE LAW.
If the likely effect of public acts is to influence witnesses or alter their testimony, the harm to the justice system's integrity is the same.
Donald J. Trump ACTIVELY assaults the rule of law. There is no doubt he wants the US House to impeach. It serves his maniacal purpose.
I DO BELIEVE TRUMP IS MANIACAL.
It would be political suicide to launch into impeachment without the knowledge, understanding and consent of the Amerian people. The people believe in their democracy and they need to be aware of the problems, understand the profound severity of obstruction in relation to the rule of law and what the rule of law means to the American democracy.
When looking across the timeline that is Trump's life he has always been maniacal. He has left financial carnage for every dollar he claims to have earned. This is not a man to be trusted in any way.
It is wrong to not impeach, but, it is a greater harm to impeach and not have the country understand and consent. I think Congress is on the right track to educate their constituents and bring them along on this journey. I would think law students could help with political campaigns to educate the people to the ills within this presidency.
THE US HOUSE MUST NOT DO MORE HARM TO THE USA ELECTORATE.
The Rule of Law must prevail and that is paramount to protecting our democracy.
Although the series of events we investigated involved discrete acts,...
The Special Counsel has accounted for acts by the president that are factual and realized. He goes on to state there is an overall pattern of conduct that drew the attention of the Special Counsel.
the overall pattern of
the President's conduct towards the investigations can shed light on the nature of the President's
acts and the inferences that can be drawn about his intent. In particular, the actions we investigated
can be divided into two phases, reflecting a possible shift in the President's motives. The first
phase covered the period from the President's first interactions with Corney through the President's
firing of Corney. During that time, the President had been repeatedly told he was not personally
under investigation. Soon after the firing of Corney and the appointment of the Special Counsel,
however, the President became aware that his own conduct was being investigated in an
obstruction-of-justice inquiry....
Up to the point and I think this is very important, when Trump began obstructing justice he was not at all under investigation.
GOT THAT.
Trump, for his own reasons, began obstructing justice. I think this entire "Pledge of Loyalty" statements by Trump carry a great deal of weight with him. Where he has no pledge of loyalty, he is paranoid about others and begins to defend from it carrying out obstruction in every way possible.
In that, Trump broke his oath of office. He cannot be demanding pledges of loyalty when he himself pledged to the office of the USA presidency. There is a specific pledge he made and it was to the country and not his own ideas of loyalty.
"The Oath of Office: 35 Words that are Harder than the Look" (ciick here)
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
"Best of my abilities" is not an excuse to depart from the oath of office. He would not and still today does not honor the fact there are laws in the USA that are to be adhered to, including providing whatever evidence the branches of government demand of the Executive Branch. There is absolutely no provision anywhere in the rule of law that states a president can derail his oath of office to embark on demanding others take an additional pledge to him.
Any pledge federal officials, elected or otherwise, take is to the country and not a maniacal man engaged in his own priorities within the powers of the USA.
Trump is a criminal that seeks to criminalize others.
At that point, the President engaged in a second phase of conduct,
involving public attacks on the inve~tigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both
public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation. Judgments about
the nature of the President's motives during each phase would be informed by the totality of the
evidence.
The investigation into Donald J. Trump's obstruction of justice is based in far more than one or two acts. The EVIDENCE of his crimes is based on multiple and repeated acts of criminality in public view.
By attacking the very AGENCY of law enforcement by attacking the personnel it brings incredible injustice to the Rule of Law. The very people that enforce the law at the highest levels of justice were to be dismantled and ridiculed beginning with the then Director of the FBI, James Comey. The people involved in Trump's raid on the US Justice Department continued and involved the highest level of the Department. When firing James Comey didn't work to end the investigation into the invasion of Russia into the USA elections of 2016, Trump continued to demonize and fire highly qualified and long-established officials of the FBI.
Today, that same ranting public behavior continues BECAUSE IT WORKS IN HIS FAVOR, not in the favor of the USA.
Trump is amoral and only abides by behaviors that benefit him regardless of the best interests of the country. If a war with Iran will provide the political uptick he is looking for he will do it regardless of the truth or the best interests of the country.
While in Great Britain he attacked yet another major company in the USA, AT&T. He fully expects those words to matter and cause harm to AT&T. That is the second company to be adversely effected by Trump, the first being GM with his draconian tariff structure regarding Mexico.
Trump continues to build instability in the USA and global economy and he continues to build danger within the stability and any potential peace within the international community.
STATUTORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSES
The President's counsel (his lawyers, including Guiliani) raised statutory and constitutional defenses to a possible
obstruction-of-justice analysis (abuse of power) of the conduct we investigated. We concluded that none of those
legal defenses provided a basis for declining to investigate the facts.
The Special Counsel, in consideration of the president's lawyers, attempt to end the investigation carried any merit and the investigation continued.
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