Mueller laid out at least a half-dozen crimes of obstruction committed by Trump -- from asking former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland to write an untruthful letter about the reason for Flynn's chat with Kislyak, to asking Corey Lewandowski and then-former White House Counse lDon McGahn to fire Mueller and McGahn to lie about it, to firing Comey to impede the FBI's investigations, to dangling a pardon in front of Michael Cohen to stay silent, to ordering his aides to hide and delete records.
The essence of obstruction is deception or diversion -- to prevent the government from finding the truth. To Mueller, the issue was not if Trump committed crimes of obstruction. Rather, it was if Trump could be charged successfully with those crimes.
Both parties agreed implicitly, early, that there was no conspiracy to investigate.
There was well know exculpatory evidence of the conspiracy, Mueller knew it. Thus no realistic indictment from the start of the presidency, and executive authority includes the ability to quash dead end investigations.
The entire investigation since the election had resolved around one fact, there was no conspiracy, Muller's investigation moot and also any obstruction. Any side indictments were illegally obtained evidence. That is Muller's legal predicament, and that is why one should read my blog and ignore Andy.
Mueller had one overwhelming problem. The word about Hillary emails was becoming public in a few weeks from multiple sources. To pick one chain, the Miftsad, Papadropolousos, Downer chain; at random?, and then to sub self the middle link, at random. Then claim a conspiracy occurred over four weeks of hectic primaries when everyone was becoming aware? Papa clearly was making small talk about political dirt with no hint of exchange. There was every hint by Downer, Mifstad and Papa that this was typical, political dirt hunting.
Mueller knew this was exculpatory, so did Trump.
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