MUELLER WIMPED OUT! HE HAD EVIDENCE THAT TRUMP INTERFERED IN THE DOJ’S EFFORT TO FIND THAT RUSSIA INTERFERED IN 2016 TO GET TRUMP ELECTED AND YET DEFERRED TO A POLICY, NOT A LAW, THAT A SITTING PRESIDENT CANNOT BE PROSECUTED. THAT LEGAL BLUNDER BEGAN A 10-YEAR ASSAULT BY TRUMP ON OUR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION PROCESS, LAWS, AND ETHICS. THE INTERFERENCE IS NOW MORE EMBOLDENED, ILLEGAL, AND DANGEROUS TO OUR FREEDOMS.
These autocratc, illegal tactis to rig elections have become more illegal, dangerous, and racist. Creating fake electors, racist gerrymandering, massive corporate donors, and threats of ICE voter intimidation now aligns our election process with autocracies and dictatorships.
MUELLER’S 10 FINDINGS ON HOW TRUMP INTERFERED WITH THE DOJ INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIA AND THE TRUMP CONNECTION ( from AP News, Mark Sherman, 2018)
PRESSURE ON COMEY TO END PROBE OF MICHAEL FLYNN
The president’s statement to then-FBI Director James Comey regarding the investigation of then-national security adviser Michael Flynn. Trump told Comey: “I hope you can see your way to letting this go.”
PRESIDENT’S REACTION TO THE CONTINUING RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
Among the evidence is the president telling then-White House counsel Don McGahn to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation and Trump’s push back publicly on the suggestion that Trump had any connection to the Russian election-interference effort.
FIRING OF COMEY AND AFTERMATH
Mueller’s report says “substantial evidence” indicates Trump’s decision to fire Comey in May 2017 was the result of the FBI director’s unwillingness to say publicly that Trump was not personally under investigation.
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APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL AND EFFORTS TO REMOVE HIM
Trump reacted to news of Mueller’s appointment by telling advisers that it was “the end of his presidency.” Trump called then-White House counsel Don McGahn at home and directed him to have Mueller removed. McGahn refused.
FURTHER EFFORTS TO CURTAIL THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’s INVESTIGATION
Trump instructed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to have Sessions publicly announce that, notwithstanding his recusal from the Russia investigation, the investigation was “very unfair” to the president, the president had done nothing wrong.
EFFORTS TO PREVENT PUBLIC DISCOSURE OF EVIDENCE
In summer of 2017, Trump learned that the news media planned to report on the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between senior campaign officials and Russians offering derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. The president directed aides not to disclose the emails setting up the meeting publicly.
ADDITIONAL EFFORTS TO HAVE SESSIONS TAKE CONTROL OF INVESTIGATION
At several points in between July 2017 and December 2017, Trump tried to get Sessions to declare that he was no longer recused from the Russia investigation and would assert control over it. The report says there’s evidence that one purpose of asking Sessions to step in was so that the attorney general would restrict the investigation’s scope.
TRUMP ORDERS WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL TO DENY THAT PRESIDENT TRIED TO FIRE MUELLER
In an Oval Office meeting in February 2018, Trump told McGahn to “correct” a New York Times story that reported Trump had earlier instructed McGahn to fire Mueller.
TRUMP’S ACTIONS TOWARD, FLYNN, MANAFORT AND OTHER POSSIBLE WITNESSES
When Flynn began cooperating with prosecutors, Trump passed word through his lawyer that he still had warm feeling for Flynn and asked for a “heads up” if Flynn knew of information implicating Trump. Trump praised Manafort during and after his criminal convictions, and refused to rule out a pardon.
TRUMP ACTIONS TOWARD MICHAEL COHEN
Mueller noted that Trump’s conduct toward Cohen, a former Trump Organization executive, changed from praise to castigation after Cohen began cooperating with prosecutors. The evidence could “support an inference.
Shame on the v orrupt GOP Congress and Supreme Court for aiding in the destruction of our Democracy
KAMALA HARRIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ATTORNEY GENERAL, NOT MERRITT GARLAND. WE NEEDED A PROSECUTOR, NOT A JUDGE, TO DEAL WITH TRUMP THE CRIMINAL.
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