How the Mueller report can still threaten Trump’s
legitimacy
The special counsel likely wrote it as a
facts-only road map for congressional investigators.
BY WALTER DELLINGER
The most damaging aspect of the report would be a thorough
account of Trump’s efforts to obstruct justice. The known facts (firing an FBI
director who refused to pledge loyalty and cease an investigation; the demand
that an attorney general “unrecuse” himself to protect the president; the call
for an investigation of the father-in-law of a witness against Trump; the
dangling of pardons before witnesses) are all bad enough. The report probably
contains others. Don’t forget the allegation that Trump asked the CIA director
and the director of national intelligence to push the FBI director to end his
investigation of former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn. Don’t
forget: The famous “smoking gun” Oval Office tape that forced Nixon’s
resignation had him ordering the CIA to persuade the FBI to end its
investigation of the Watergate break-in.
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