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Finally, the fourth enduring truth of the Mueller Report comes from Volume 2 of the document—which covers not Trump’s dealings with Russia but his efforts to obstruct the Mueller investigation itself. That truth is that the president and the people around him behave like gangsters.
Mueller never, of course, says this quite this bluntly. He describes, rather, “potentially obstructive acts” and archly refers to “a series of actions by the President that related to the Russian-interference investigations, including the President’s conduct towards the law enforcement officials overseeing the investigations and the witnesses to relevant events.”
Volume 2, you may recall, catalogues a number of incidents in which Trump engaged in activity that raised questions under the obstruction statute—activity like dangling pardons to people who could hurt him, issuing pardons, tweeting reassurances to keep people from cooperating, attacking witnesses who cooperate, firing officials, and threats to fire officials or crack down on the investigation.
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trump devotees have never accepted the demonstrable truths revealed by Mueller. They prefer to remain in the comfort of their mental hidey holes, prepared for them by Bill Barr's ludicrous declaration Mueller exonerated trump. He did not. The failure to discover enough evidence to show a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia (hampered by trump's obstruction of justice) has overshadowed the damning evidence he revealed. Among them, trump's traitorous actions which no other public, political figure could have survived.
Mueller never, of course, says this quite this bluntly. He describes, rather, “potentially obstructive acts” and archly refers to “a series of actions by the President that related to the Russian-interference investigations, including the President’s conduct towards the law enforcement officials overseeing the investigations and the witnesses to relevant events.”
Volume 2, you may recall, catalogues a number of incidents in which Trump engaged in activity that raised questions under the obstruction statute—activity like dangling pardons to people who could hurt him, issuing pardons, tweeting reassurances to keep people from cooperating, attacking witnesses who cooperate, firing officials, and threats to fire officials or crack down on the investigation.
The Situation: The Enduring Truths of the Mueller Report
There are four of them.
trump devotees have never accepted the demonstrable truths revealed by Mueller. They prefer to remain in the comfort of their mental hidey holes, prepared for them by Bill Barr's ludicrous declaration Mueller exonerated trump. He did not. The failure to discover enough evidence to show a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia (hampered by trump's obstruction of justice) has overshadowed the damning evidence he revealed. Among them, trump's traitorous actions which no other public, political figure could have survived.

