Sally Yates: If Trump Weren't President, 'He Would Likely Be Indicted On Obstruction'
Source: TPM
April 28, 2019 1:03 pm
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said Sunday that she believed the evidence of obstruction of justice in special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report would be sufficient to charge President Donald Trump criminally if he weren’t in office.
“I’ve been a prosecutor for nearly 30 years, and I can tell you I’ve personally prosecuted obstruction cases on far, far less evidence than this,” Yates told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell in an interview on “Meet the Press.”
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Yates said that while not all evidence of obstruction cited in Mueller’s report carried the same legal significance, as Mueller himself acknowledged, “there are several incidents that he described to which special counsel Mueller really couldn’t point to any significant factual or legal defenses.”
Trump fired Yates days into his presidency after she refused to defend the first iteration of his travel ban executive border that barred entry to the United States for people from several Muslim-majority countries, among other measures...............................
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Glad to her speaking out.
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Worse than that, he enters the 2020 election as the purest president ever. Look how much time and money his enemies spent investigating him, and he has been vindicated. At least, that's what the narrative will be. He's not only the most successful president ever in the history of the country, but also the least corrupt. "My enemies looked and looked and they didn't find a single thing I had done wrong!"
And he'll try to get "his" AG to prosecute every single imaginary political and journalistic enemy that he believes has persecuted him. And Barr will do as he's told.
The vaunted "Base" will eat it up like puppies eating poop (a behavior called "coprophagy."
I think I'm going to be sick.
We all know there's a long list of scandals surrounding him, but he just ignores those and focuses on the fantasy persona he has created in his mind. Not surprisingly, so do his followers.
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Glad we cleared THAT up! 
