Input wanted on this. I read the entire Mueller Report.

[kairos12]

Is there a legal reason (not a political one) why the Obstruction of Justice Charges discussed within the Report have not been offered as a rational for prosecution of Chump? If I recall right the charging decision was left up to Barr, couldn't the DOJ make a different charging now? It seems the advantage here these possible charges have been already thoroughly investigated. Then he was a sitting President, no longer applies except in MAGA fever world.

Serious question for me.

[sop]

1. Five year statute of limitations?

"Time is running out for Biden's Justice Department to prosecute Trump for 10 possible crimes detailed in the Mueller report"

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-prosecution-indictment-statute-of-limitations-mueller-obstruction-charges-doj-2022-1

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. If Garland doesn't prosecute MF45 for that,

the public deserves an explanation of why there was no prosecution within the time.

[Grasswire2]

3. ABSOLUTELY

and now we're getting closer to the mid-terms and there will be that weak "oh we don't file charges during election season...."

[BlueIdaho]

15. The public deserves a better Attorney General.

Garland is a sloth when it comes to aggressively protecting our constitutional rights. That includes the right to assume that votes determine the outcome of elections - not violent mobs.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. IIRC the DOJ has a policy that you don't prosecute a sitting president for things done while Pres.

Impeachment being the remedy.

[dchill]

13. He's no longer sitting. The crimes are still unpunished.

[doc03]

5. Meanwhile the DOJ? If Republicans take Congress they will have a committee investigating

Joe, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton and who knows who else on day one.

[tirebiter]

7. Then win the next election

That’s how we have some say in the circumstances

[Hoyt]

6. Well, Mueller's assertion -- 21 times by my count -- that the investigation

found no evidence of trump or his campaign conspiring/colluding/cooperating with Ruskies all but ended any chance of conviction.

Mueller wimped out. He should have said, we found no evidence because the MFer obstructed it. But Mueller didn’t say that in his report, when questioned by Congress, or at his retirement press conference.

[certainot]

16. they did it by radio. kremlin's been using rw radio since at least 2008 when they used limbaugh to

force mccain to pick palin over lieberman and pawlenty. she was getting wooed by russian oil and gas and limbaugh would not support mccain until minutes after mccain picked palin, the friday before the GOP convention, announced minutes before the start of the show so he could finally announce his support.

mueller was an idiot, like all dem leadership, and most of the media, for ignoring the RW radio connection at the root of the disaster

as noted in comment above. hannity, limbaugh's second in talk radio, was redacted from the mueller report glossary even tho he was referenced 5 times.

[Hoyt]

17. Well, wasted a lot of time looking for documents, emails, etc.

[uponit7771]

8. Hunter Biden fake MAGA charges come first

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. Not all criteria met for conviction on all potential incidents of obstruction

https://www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map

Out of 14 potential incidents of obstruction, only 4 possibly meet all the legal criteria required to convict -

1) the obstructive act
2) nexus (awareness of the investigation/prosecution being obstructed)
3) intent

Unfortunately, the Color coded “heat map” of the obstructive acts and criteria wouldn’t paste here; I recommend reading the whole article.

[kairos12]

11. Very helpful. Thanks.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. I am hoping that such charges would be part of an indictment of TFG

The DOJ may want to include a number of charges against TFG including (i) obstruction of justice, (ii) tax fraud, (iii) destruction of Presidential Records, and (iv) illegal campaign expenditure in addition to the Jan. 6 insurrection charges.

[FakeNoose]

12. As Jamie Raskin says in his book

... it would be so easy to get Chump on the Emoluments, he broke those laws every single day while he was in the White House. Chump openly admitted he was doing it, and refused to stop doing it. He even brought in his own daughter and son-in-law to make sure the emoluments (illegal income) were maximized. Chump interfered with government work, legislation, and even judicial rulings in order to keep the emoluments rolling in. Mueller ignored the whole thing, or else he decided it wasn't in his purview.

[smirkymonkey]

19. +1000

I never understood why that was just swept under the rug. It was such a blatant violation conducted in plain sight for all to see.

[certainot]

14. how much of the redacted Mueller report has to do with talk radio? why was Hannity's name redacted

from the glossary, even though he was mentioned 5 times in incidental references and should have been there, unless he was also involved in redacted sections.

[jalan48]

18. Garland was approved by a vote of 70-30,with 20 Republicans voting yes. This included McConnell.

McConnell has been blocking Democrats since Obama, why would he suddenly support Garland?

[FoxNewsSucks]

20. Probably the same reason

Moscow Mitch was only OK with relinquishing senate control after his meetings with Joe Manchin. He refused at first.

[jalan48]

21. I'd forgotten about this. It appears our two party system of government is in a

more precarious position than I thought.