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The Biden administration released a Trump-era memorandum that provided the most detailed look yet at the Justice Department’s legal reasoning for proclaiming that President Trump could not be charged with obstruction of justice over his efforts to impede the Russia investigation.
A newly unredacted March 2019 memo released by the Justice Department details the legal reasoning behind the decision not to charge then-President Donald Trump with obstructing the Russia probe.
The Justice Department has released a 2019 memo laying out the case for not prosecuting former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in connection with the Russia investigation.
A document released by court order showed how in 2019, Justice Department lawyers argued that former President Donald Trump had not illegally impeded the Russia investigation.
Justice Department officials who evaluated then-President Donald Trump's actions during the Russia investigation concluded that nothing he did, including firing the FBI director, rose to the level of obstruction of justice and that there was no precedent for a prosecution, according to a memo released Wednesday.