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THREAD: The DOJ Inspector General’s Report and the Case for Obstruction (1/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-d…
According to ABC, the Department of Justice IG’s report will conclude that James Comey and others in the FBI repeatedly violated DOJ policy in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, hurting her campaign and helping Trump’s. (2/13) abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-w…
This should put to rest the obviously false charges Trump and his supporters have made that the FBI was biased against him—and further cement the case that Trump has obstructed justice. (3/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-d…
The IG reportedly faults Comey for violating DOJ protocol in his two public statements about the email investigation, the latter of which—his infamous October 28, 2016 letter—may have cost her the election in its final weeks. (4/13) fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-c…
The report is also expected to assess how information regarding the Clinton investigation was routinely leaked, including to then-Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani, leading one agent to call the bureau “Trumpland.” (5/13) theguardian.com/us-news/2016/n…
The FBI was not biased against Trump. In fact, its actions unduly hurt Clinton—a criticism Trump was happy to deploy when he could use it to justify firing Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (6/13) cnn.com/2017/05/09/pol…
It was obvious at the time that Trump didn’t fire Comey for mistreating Clinton. After all, Trump kept demanding an investigation into Clinton even after he fired Comey. (7/13) trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/clinto…
He’s also admitted at least twice, including once on national television, that he fired Comey to stop the Russia investigation. (8/13) nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
And yet, he and Attorney General Jeff Sessions used the same rationale to fire McCabe—after the president spent months claiming, without any evidence, that McCabe was biased against him. (9/13) theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Back when he thought the IG report might help him, Trump was pressuring Sessions to hurry it along. Now, he’s already trying to sow doubt about its conclusions. (10/13)
Trump's laying the groundwork to claim the IG report proves the Justice Department is biased against him and protecting Clinton when, in fact, it shows the exact opposite. (11/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-d…
That’s as clear a proof as you can get that Trump never believed his official justification for firing Comey at the time, and certainly doesn’t believe it now. (12/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-d…
All of Trump’s interference with the Justice Department, from firing Comey to pressuring Sessions to resign to demanding this IG report, has had one motivation: stopping the Russia investigation at all costs—before it catches up to him. (13/13) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-d…
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