WHITE HOUSE
Obstruction of Justice and ‘Dangling of Pardons’ Among 4 Issues Mueller Report Will Contain – and Issue Ahead of Plan
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to on his findings in the Russia investigation will include at least four areas of findings, including obstruction of justice and “dangling of pardons before grand jury witnesses who might testify against him,” NBC News reports.
But now that the President has effectively refused to testify, “Robert Mueller’s office and President Donald Trump’s legal team are now proceeding with strategies that presume a presidential interview will likely not take place as part of the Russia investigation, after months of talks between the two sides collapsed earlier this week.”
Mueller’s findings “on Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice include: His intent to fire former FBI Director James Comey; his role in the crafting of a misleading public statement on the nature of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son and Russians; Trump’s dangling of pardons before grand jury witnesses who might testify against him; and pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation,” the NBC report adds.
Mueller would then likely send a confidential report to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the Russia investigation. Rosenstein could decide whether to make the report public and send its findings to Congress. From there, Congress would then decide whether to begin impeachment proceedings against the president, said two of the sources.
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