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Rachel Maddow details exactly how Trump's flagrant use of pardons may be 'criminal obstruction'.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow details exactly how Trump’s flagrant use of pardons may be ‘criminal obstruction of justice’President Donald Trump’s pardoning of Dinesh D’Souza on Thursday looked to many observers like a flagrant attempt to send a signal to his associates implicated in the Russia investigation that he is willing to pardon them, too, in an effort to keep them from cooperating with prosecutors. But as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explained, if Trump really is using the pardon power in this way, it could place him in serious legal jeopardy.
The problem is that, as even the President Richard Nixon’s White House seemed to acknowledge, the pardon power cannot be used to hinder or undermine investigations that might affect the president personally, Maddow explained.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-details-exactly-trumps-flagrant-use-pardons-may-criminal-obstruction-justice/
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Not being from the US I really appreciate Maddow's intense background research and always come away from her stories better informed.
Cohen's a real charmer. 