Trump clearly tried to obstruct probe of himself and his family by pressuring acting AG Whitaker: le

[Judi Lynn]

Trump clearly tried to obstruct probe of himself and his family by pressuring acting AG Whitaker: legal experts
Travis Gettys TRAVIS GETTYS
28 DEC 2018 AT 05:58 ET

President Donald Trump reportedly tried to pressure acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to “control” federal prosecutors in New York — where his longtime attorney had implicated the president, his family and his business in a criminal conspiracy.

Trump issued a narrow denial of the CNN report, which he attacked as “fake news,” but a pair of legal experts writing for The Daily Beast called on the incoming Congress to fully investigate this “astonishing” incident as obstruction of justice.

“We don’t know how Mr. Whitaker reacted to the president’s actions, but it’s clear this is an active attempt to thwart an ongoing investigation, so time is of the essence,” wrote Matthew Miller, a former Justice Department spokesman, and Mimi Rocah, a former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. “Every Justice Department official with any knowledge of the president’s conversations with Mr. Whitaker needs to be called to testify and turn over any relevant documents in their possession.”

The pair of legal experts, who are also MSNBC contributors, called on prosecutors in the Southern District of New York — where former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty — to expand their campaign finance investigation involving Trump and his children to examine obstruction of justice.


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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. If Whitaker didn't report it, he is guilty of a crime. . . . nt

[Cosmocat]

2. That moron is in a world of hurt

Arrogant POS, completely unprepared for the position itself, but also the rat holes his boss will lead him into.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. He tries to walk the tightrope between legitimacy and conspiracy against the US,

but it was a fool's errand from the get-go. Trumpy will REFUSE to let Whitaker stay legit. He'll taunt Whitaker on a daily basis to relieve him of his own world of hurt. But there's simply too much of it. Whitaker will also be indicted because it's impossible for him to stay clean when the solitary reason for his being hired is to commit crimes for Trumpy. Ultimately, Whitaker will be known as the stupid fuck who dug his own grave while thinking that it's Donald's latrine.