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"As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that."
In the report, he did not say that Trump clearly did not commit a crime. Thus, they had no confidence that Trump did not commit a crime.
Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is a process crime, consisting of obstructing prosecutors or other (usually government) officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice.
How many more thousands of times do we need to say OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? That's what I just said!
We have literally said this hundreds, if not thousands, of times on this board.
"Obstruction of justice" is not a specific crime under federal law. It is a category, and there are a number of different obstruction crimes in the US Code. They are laid out in Chapter 73 of Title 18.
Which one are you talking about, and what did Trump do that broke that specific law?
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"Obstruction of justice" is not a specific crime under federal law. It is a category, and there are a number of different obstruction crimes in the US Code. They are laid out in Chapter 73 of Title 18. Which one are you talking about, and what did Trump do that broke that specific law?
Of course it's a specific crime
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Definition
18 U.S.C. § 1503 defines "obstruction of justice" as an act that "corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice."
Overview
Someone obstructs justice when that person has a specific intent to obstruct or interfere with a judicial proceeding. For a person to be convicted of obstructing justice, that person must not only have the specific intent to obstruct the proceeding, but that person must know (1) that a proceeding was actually pending at the time; and (2) there must be a connection between the endeavor to obstruct justice and the proceeding, and the person must have knowledge of this connection.
§ 1503 applies only to federal judicial proceedings. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1505, however, a defendant can be convicted of obstruction of justice by obstructing a pending proceeding before Congress or a federal administrative agency. A pending proceeding could include an informal investigation by an executive agency. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obstruction_of_justice
“We concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime,” Mueller added. “That is the office’s final position.”
“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said Wednesday at the Justice Department. “We did not determine whether the president did commit a crime.”
2yrs and $25million spent for this outcome? “We cant say that he didn’t commit a crime but we also cant determine if he did”.
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That's what I just said!
