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Fox News Host Claims Trump ‘Not Charged With Obstructing’ Despite Multiple Counts
Prominent Fox News host “Judge” Jeanine Pirro claimed on Tuesday obstruction is not among the 91 felony charges Donald Trump is facing.
Pirro, who holds a law degree, was a prosecutor for a dozen years and a county judge, told Fox News viewers, “the Democrats spent the whole day saying, Donald Trump obstructed. Well, newsflash, Donald Trump was not charged with obstructing.”
Donald Trump faces multiple obstruction charges.
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“Former president Donald Trump faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases. They include 44 federal charges and 47 state charges, all of them felonies,” The Washington Post has reported. “The most severe federal counts are those related to obstruction, which is punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment.”
In Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Espionage Act case, also known as the “classified documents case,” Trump faces “6 felony counts of obstruction-related crimes under 18 U.S.C. § 1512 and 18 U.S.C. § 1519,” according to Politico.
Trump is also charged with obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the election subversion and January 6 case.
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Jeanine: The Democrats spent the whole day saying, Donald Trump obstructed. Well, news flash, Donald Trump is not charged with obstructing. pic.twitter.com/nP7NW9vez7
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 12, 2024
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