I'll summarize. I missed this last night and am taking notes now, figured this was an excuse to delay my work more. It's hasty so it is what it is
History of Nixon and his administrations many misdeeds.
Many of Nixon's senior folks already indicted on federal charges, and the Grand Jury names Nixon as a co-conspirator to these crimes.
Nixon's legal team challenged this. Challenges if the evidence in this case was sufficient to warrant naming him as a co-conspirator.
Judiciary committee in congress wrote to the special prosecutor and said "present the evidence that warranted naming Nixon".
They said "OK, here it comes".
Many, many pages of detailed evidence detailed many crimes, including many examples of obstruction.
joined criminal conspiracy to obstruct and commit perjury
- making false statements
- offers of clemency and lenience
- obtaining information form the justice department to thwart the investigation
- making and facilitating the making of false statements
- influencing aides to give false information
- obstruction of a congressional committee
etc.etc.
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Point being, many of these sound precisely like Trump-team efforts, and they were all stacked up by the special prosecutor for Nixon.
Also notice it was congress asking the special prosecutor for the evidence, of particular interest in the post-Whitaker AG (Trump partisan).
She then recounts a lot of the big examples of Trump obstruction. It started with two exapmles showing key people being questioned by congress on this, and how they all dodged/avoided answering...awkwardly so.
1. Reports break that President directly asks Coats and head of NSA (Mike) to make public statements to say they knew Trump hadn't colluded with Russia.
- Coats asked and won't answer
- Mike Rogers is asked the same, also refuses to answer.
2. trump also asked Coats and Pompeo to interfere with Comey's investigations - Pompeo refuses to answer, and says "I don't recall"
3. Comey was asked to back off investigation into Flynn
4. Trump directed sessions to not recuse because he felt he can't control the investigation
5. Trump asked the AG to stop the investigation (Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now". Guilianni says he wasn't serious.
6. retweeting the picture of everyone opposing him behind bars, asked why Rosenstein should be behind bars. Trump responds - she should have never picked a special counsel.
7. In june told white house counsel to fire special counsel
8. Again in December
9. aug 9th last year, to Mitch McConnell for refusing to protected Trump from the Russian investigation
10. directed senate leadership to stop the senate intelligence committee investigation into Russian meddling
11. personally helped concoct false statements about the Trump Tower meeting for Don Jr.
12. President's attorneys discussed pardons with Manafort and Flynn
13. Trump specifically says a pardon for Manafort is on the table
14. Trump's attorney's bragging that Manafort, a convicted felon, while supposedly cooperating with Mueller, was feeding information to them
15. firing sessions and installing Whitaker, a partisan, conflicted, Trump loyalist who is not qualified to be AG
16. Trump admits he installed Whitaker because of the Russia investigation
17 Recently departed FBI General Counsel Jim Baker, seemingly in response, writes a piece about Nixon using contact with the Justice Department to spy on the investigation into him (Nixon).
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Her claim is that while we have a huge spread of evidence now (thanks to people who requested it be released) about Nixon, this list of Trump's looks far greater.