Still, one wonders if it is appropriate for Trump to use his weight as president to persuade the Committee to come to one conclusion or another, or to go one direction or another with what they are investigating. If the investigation from the inception was about Russian influence and possible collusion by him or his workers, and he sought to turn it from investigating that to investigating matters involving Hillary, isn't that obstructing the process? Isn't that interjecting the power of your high office to shift an investigation from you to somebody else? Has President Trump done this, or has he been hands-off, not asking them to take the investigation one direction or another? If this is not a criminal investigation, no obstruction of justice charges can result, but the wrongness of such pressuring remains the same. You are seeking to obstruct and divert the process from reaching a certain conclusion.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Has Trump used the Power of His Office to Shift the Investigation?
One wonders if obstruction of justice is a concern, then should any pressuring of the House committee by Trump be investigated? I would be somewhat certain the House investigation, not being a criminal investigation, does not warrant charges of obstruction of justice.
Still, one wonders if it is appropriate for Trump to use his weight as president to persuade the Committee to come to one conclusion or another, or to go one direction or another with what they are investigating. If the investigation from the inception was about Russian influence and possible collusion by him or his workers, and he sought to turn it from investigating that to investigating matters involving Hillary, isn't that obstructing the process? Isn't that interjecting the power of your high office to shift an investigation from you to somebody else? Has President Trump done this, or has he been hands-off, not asking them to take the investigation one direction or another? If this is not a criminal investigation, no obstruction of justice charges can result, but the wrongness of such pressuring remains the same. You are seeking to obstruct and divert the process from reaching a certain conclusion.
Still, one wonders if it is appropriate for Trump to use his weight as president to persuade the Committee to come to one conclusion or another, or to go one direction or another with what they are investigating. If the investigation from the inception was about Russian influence and possible collusion by him or his workers, and he sought to turn it from investigating that to investigating matters involving Hillary, isn't that obstructing the process? Isn't that interjecting the power of your high office to shift an investigation from you to somebody else? Has President Trump done this, or has he been hands-off, not asking them to take the investigation one direction or another? If this is not a criminal investigation, no obstruction of justice charges can result, but the wrongness of such pressuring remains the same. You are seeking to obstruct and divert the process from reaching a certain conclusion.
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