MUST-READ thread from Ryan Goodman, former DoD Special Counsel

[highplainsdem]

Found this thanks to a retweet from Preet Bharara:

Link to tweet

Barr '18 memo: "if a President...commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity…of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction"

Mueller report: Trump "ORDERED" White House Counsel to create false record to impair "ongoing investigation." 1/





2. Greatest criminal exposure for Trump: ordering White House Counsel to create false record (record denying POTUS tried to fire Special Counsel).

Mueller's conclusion: incident satisfies all three elements for obstruction.

(and Trump made "repeated efforts." McGahn refused.)



3. Klobuchar: "You said that a president deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence would be obstruction. Is that correct?"

Barr: "Yes"

Klobuchar: "You wrote…that if a president knowingly destroys or alters evidence that would be obstruction?"

Barr:“Yes”



4. Here's the video of Klobuchar and Barr exchange via @kylegriffin1

Link to tweet

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P.S. Don McGahn's lawyer, April 19, 2019:

The details in the Mueller Report are “accurately described.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/439858-mcgahn-lawyer-responds-after-giuliani-knocks-his-credibility

[pangaia]

1. Got the fucker.

Call HIM to testify under oath.

Then throw him in the slammer.

[delisen]

2. The plot thickens. Is there a Republican establishment that

wants Trump out?

[patphil]

3. Wow! Does Barr sound weasely or not?

He didn't want to answer her questions. You can see it in his body language and his hesitation to answer.
Talk about someone engaging in obstruction of justice!
All Barr has to do is look into a mirror.

Patrick Phillips

[nuxvomica]

4. So Barr is apparently not a "strict constructivist" of his own writings

Which I guess is the nicest way to put it.