Lewdog
Gold Member
What people fail to realize is...
When you threaten to fire someone over Twitter, and you give the reason is just because their wife is in the opposition party... and that person also happens to be be a key part of a possible investigation into you, that's obstruction of justice.
No it isn't. The President of the United States could literally get on national TV and say "Mr Director of the FBI , I told you to drop a case and you refused, so you are fired" and that's not obstruction.
Primarily because the POTUS has the legal authority to fired the Director of the FBI for any reason, but also because the POTUS has the legal authority to end any investigation he so chooses because the Justice Department answers to the POTUS.
This is the case whether it would have been Obama or Trump, or anyone else as POTUS.
Obstruction would be something like the POTUS ordered someone to remove evidence or to lie or something like that, because the POTUS does not have the legal authority to do either of those things.
Trump has not obstructed justice. This is just another feverish dream by those who hate him.
No, he can't. I guess you haven't read the rules for how a President can fire someone in that position.
...and the knowledge McCabe owns IS EVIDENCE.