Obstruction Act News Today

long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smiths evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, "the new york times" is naming names. "the new york times" reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trumps legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. "the new york times" reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trumps va...

threat today. that faction is seeking to overturn the will of voters in future elections should they prevail in 2022. they made that point abundantly clear as if it was not already at back-to-back rallies over the weekend, headlined by the ex-president in two key battleground states. this election in 2024 they pledge to do that in arizona and nevada. here is what the republican nominee for secretary of state in nevada had to say. jim marchand. >> president trump and i lost an election ...

of government records. as of now, we should note no one has been charged with a crime. trumps first line of defense was to baselessly suggest the fbi may have planted evidence while in his home. plan b, trump had declassified documents before the fbi seized them. so theyre both declassified and planted. does that make any sense? the espionage act does not hinge on whether documents are classified. the trump teams latest move is to blame a government agency for moving boxes of classifie...

So theres two big issues here. one is the mishandling, the stealing of classified and sensitive information, and the other is, once that came to light, what did donald trump do about it? and it sure looks like he obstructed the investigation into it. >> you know, luke, the congressional investigation into january 6th had, as all of its narrators, top, close, intimate trump insiders, cassidy hutchinson probably most notably, the mueller probe, volume two, had top white house counsel as close as y...

Some other institution before they go with something in a memoir, but even when they request, there are very high standards set, and i think what merrick garland has done here now is he sent a very very strong message to donald trump, dont mess with me. dont fool with me. if you do, youre going to get in real hot water over the espionage act, over the obstruction act, over mishandling of documents as you said. these are three potential crimes that are out there, and if hes -- if donald trump is ...

For example, the obstruction act. go through them, did you find substantial evidence of these acts, mr. mueller? he has to say yes, he used that term. in the report when muellers talk about why he did not subpoena trump, controversial decision, he says we already had sufficient evidence to make certain assessments about the presidents intent. you say, what was that evidence, and what assessment did you make about his intent. it sounds to me like hes saying we already had enough to know that he h...

>> i think it connects to his investigation because that investigation will look into what the information was that he was -- that president trump wanted to fire comey to avoid coming out. i think mueller will be investigating what actually was the obstruction. the obstruction act was the firing of comey. these will interplay with each other and we will see a culmination of the facts and all of these different investigations coming together to lead to impeachment for charges being filed. >> chuc...