novaveritas
Bluelighter
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There is no Rule of Law as you put it, it is all down to nuance interpretation and implementation.It becomes obstruction as soon as you attempt to stop the functioning of the investigation. Just because people get away with it doesn't make it not serious.
This isn't a matter of interpretation or debate, obstruction IS a serious crime. You can argue that it shouldn't be, but currently it is.
And I'd hardly say the president is the poor underdog vs the prosecutor with the full power of the state. The prosecutor is the underdog in this story.
Not that there even is a prosecutor here yet.
This seems pretty cut and dry to me, if the president is permitted to obstruct investigation into their wrongdoing without it also being an example of wrong doing, it undermines the very rule of law even more so than the current interpretation of qualified immunity already does.
George Bush blatently lied to congress over the Iraq war, that is a federal offence, a high crime, nothing happened.
Apologies I used weasel words, investigator not prosecutor sometimes and vice versa. investigator presents evidence of a prima facie case to answer, prosecutor decides whether to run it. Nobody has any illusion that the investigator is impartial or neutral he works for the State and therefore the prosecution. He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
Mueller struggled to produce evidence of a prima facie case of collusion. Maybe there wasn't any collusion, maybe Mueller couldn't find the evidence, maybe Trumps stonewalling and obstruction prevented that. Maybe Mueller didn't want to find the evidence?
The story is really that of a failed investigation, and a report which is not conclusive either way.
The most likely scenario is that this is a face saving maneuver, both sides can argue what the report means and what IS actually IS, in the mean time the world keeps on turnin and unless the recession accelerates Trump will be re-elected president. Politicians know that most people have the memory of a goldfish, so all you have to do is ride out a the storm and everyone will forget.
There is also no way you can spin it that the investigator backed by all the resources of the FBI and law enforcement is the underdog. The investigator can make unlimited errors practically without consequence to either themselves or the investigation.
I suggest perhaps controversially your world view that Obstruction as a serious crime is merely a sop which is presented when a fishing expedition fails to come up with any real fish.
Everyone knows including the Dems and the FBI knows where the fish are with Trump they are not Russian fish
Just as everyone knew where the fish were with HW Bush and Slick Willy Clinton, unfortunately the accusers also are guilty of exactly the same thing with the same people. Follow the money!!
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