I didn’t understand the legitimacy of this claim by Mueller.
Everything about Trump that this investigation was supposed to investigate predated his appointment!
For that matter, anything that ANY investigation team seeks to investigate is a matter of looking back on the alleged incident it is allegedly formed to investigate.
… and which completely predated the appointment of the Mueller team.
Since a corrupt purpose is needed to find obstruction (where things like perjury or witness tampering arent involved), the origins of this investigation of the Trump campaign are very relevant. If the investigation was bogus, then there could be no corrupt intent to want to put an end to it.
But then, Mueller never made a determination of obstruction one way or the other. He sort of just floated around saying look at this and look at that. You don’t really need exculpatory evidence from that.
Mueller could not make a determination whether there was or was not obstruction.
Barr misrepresented the Report so badly that his determination is purely political.
So people do not forget. The Report shows that Trump was working to have a real estate deal in Moscow during a campaign where he lied to the public about it. At the same, the campaign was attempting to illegally obtain stolen material from a foreign intelligence service and when they failed to do so they worked to cover it up.
If people are fine with that… then we get what we deserve.
But the problem here is that something like lying during the campaign (if he did) about the real estate deal in Moscow is not a crime.
Ok…a President should not lie during a campaign so we should still hold it against him.
But…this sort of thing turns the Mueller report into taxpayer paid for opposition research. That is not the job of the DOJ, or shouldn’t be.
My guess…is if Barr ordered the DOJ to do opposition research on the next nominee of the Democratic party you would object to that.