corrupt motive when seeking to thwart a criminal investigation? asserting false reasons for the firing of comey and then mueller suggests that he was hiding his real rationale. if the reason for comey's firing and the order that mueller being fired was that the president to use his words was just fighting back, fighting back against an unfounded probe that was looking for collusion where it never existed, ginned up by a fake dossier with the support of deflated democrats and an antagonistic press, then why not say so? why create pretext when truth is on your side? the president absolutely has a right to defend himself. it's not a crime for the subject of a criminal probe to assert their innocence or provide additional information to exxon rates themselves. but where a person takes steps with intent to corruptly imt speed or stop such an investigation, that can amount to obstruction of justice. and now things aare about to ge