Did Trump tweet admission to obstruction of justice?
We all know Twitter is Trump's weapon, but we also know it would eventually come back to haunt him. Though it has proven numerous of the President's flip-flops, this is definitely the most self-incriminating thing he has tweeted this far.
A while ago, President Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey for 'confusing' and 'mixed' reasons by the US leader. Officials that took on the head of the FBI declared that they would look into the case as potential obstruction of justice.
It is clear that James Comey thinks he was fired for refusing to be lenient with the President after he'd asked then-director of an investigation into Russian connections including potential Russian collusion. Only days after his refusal, Comey was fired.
The investigation, lead by Robert Mueller, has just hit an extremely interesting, incriminating and dangerous piece of evidence proving not only the case revolving around the Russian involvement of the 2016 election; but also obstruction of justice.
According to Mueller, former National Security Adviser for President Trump was held accountable and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about ties and connections, including contact, with Russian officials during the 2016 election. For a lesser sentence, Mueller and Flynn settled that Flynn would cooperate with Mueller and help their inquiries.
Only hours later, Michael Flynn was held accountable for proving that numerous attempts by high-tier Trump campaign officials were responsible for urging Flynn to make contacts with Russians in order to strike a deal involving US-Russian sanctions.
However, the President's responses to Flynn pleading guilty sparked an enormous controversy. At first, he tried to pass off Mike Flynn as a former Obama official, also saying that Flynn 'lied for nothing' and saying there was 'nothing to hide', meanwhile trying to pass off that he wasn't stressed at all. Officials said he 'had no anxiety'.
But on Twitter, the day of December 3rd 2017, President Trump may have incriminated himself to the impeachable offense of obstruction of justice.
According to the definition of obstruction of justice, the offense includes any attempt to hide the discovery of someone that committed a crime for personal purposes. It also includes any attempt to bribe or intimidate anybody to hide/enforce apprehension of anything revolving around the act of crime.
DEFINITION A: "Obstruction may consist of any attempt to hinder the discovery, apprehension, conviction or punishment of anyone who has committed a crime [...]"
In the case of Mike Flynn, Trump has publicly admitted via a Twitter response to the guilty plea of the former campaign official and National Security Advisor that he did know that Flynn lied to the FBI and committed the crime; saying it was the reason behind Mike Flynn's dismissal from his job
This would be a violation of obstruction of justice in the sense that Trump played the part in 'any attempt to hinder the discovery [...] of anyone who has committed a crime', which would be considered an impeachable/guilty offense by courts. Trump deliberately harbored someone he knew had broken the law.
However, a direct tie between Flynn's plea as well as the Comey obstruction of justice investigation is the relevant time frame. Right around the time Flynn contacted Russians after allegedly being asked by Kushner and/or Trump himself; that would be when the President tried to urge Comey to terminate the investigation. As mentioned earlier; this was only days before James Comey was ousted from his position.
Could Trump have broken the law of an impeachable offense and major misdemeanor by trying to hinder the discovery of Flynn's illegal actions? Could Trump have broken the law of an impeachable offense and major misdemeanor by firing Comey to avoid then-FBI director from discovering Flynn's offenses?
All of these questions are among those under extremely intense scrutiny by Robert/Bob Mueller and his special counsel, as impeachment talks are in the works - according to several sources to our news agency. Proof of Russian collusion might not be what the prosecutors need to confirm illegal action by this president.
