Unimpeachable Character
I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…
Nine hundred sixteen former federal prosecutors have done what few American voters, and apparently only one Republican Congressman, have: they’ve read the Mueller Report.
And every one of them would have indicted the Russian stooge who is president of the United States for the multiple felony crimes described within.
These are not left-leaning CNN commentators. These are prosecutors. Republicans and Democrats who have served every administration going back to Eisenhower. Line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, senior officials at the Department of Justice. The only ax they have to grind is the ax they ground their entire careers: justice.
“The Mueller Report,” these nine hundred-plus prosecutors write, “describes several acts that satisfy all of the elements for an obstruction charge: conduct that obstructed or attempted to obstruct the truth-finding process, as to which the evidence of corrupt intent and connection to pending proceedings is overwhelming.”
Trump, they say, tried to fire Mueller and then falsified the evidence that he did. Tried to limit Mueller from investigating his conduct. Tampered with witnesses, threatening them and dangling pardons.
The prosecutors say a decision to indict Trump — not taken by Mueller because Justice Department policy precludes indictment of a sitting president — wasn’t even a close call: “to look at these facts and say that a prosecutor could not probably sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice — the standard set out in Principles of Federal Prosecution — runs counter to logic and our experience.”
Unchecked obstruction of justice, they say, which allows intentional interference with criminal investigations to go unpunished , “puts our whole system of justice at risk.”
The prosecutor they have in mind to punish this behavior? The prosecutor Mueller had in mind when he offered his road map report? The United States Congress, whose Democratic leaders so far seem to be relying instead on the same false promise of 2016: an election. An election tampered with then by Russians on Trump’s behalf, tampering that Trump publicly invited and has no intention of preventing again in 2020.
How many impeachable offenses must there be before the Congress starts an impeachment inquiry? When does the collective fate of the nation outweigh the individual political fates of its members?
Today, Trump turns to blackmail, and says he’ll refuse to do his job until the investigations stop. You can’t investigate and legislate at the same time, he says, ignoring the fact that Congress has investigated and legislated at the same time for roughly two hundred thirty years. Maybe the President can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, but Congress can and has the duty to do so.
Add it to the articles of impeachment.