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Barr '18 memo: "if a President...commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity…of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction"

Mueller report: Trump "ORDERED" White House Counsel to create false record to impair "ongoing investigation." 1/
2. Greatest criminal exposure for Trump: ordering White House Counsel to create false record (record denying POTUS tried to fire Special Counsel).

Mueller's conclusion: incident satisfies all three elements for obstruction.

(and Trump made "repeated efforts." McGahn refused.)
3. Klobuchar: "You said that a president deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence would be obstruction. Is that correct?"

Barr: "Yes"

Klobuchar: "You wrote…that if a president knowingly destroys or alters evidence that would be obstruction?"

Barr:“Yes”
4. Here's the video of Klobuchar and Barr exchange via @kylegriffin1



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P.S. Don McGahn's lawyer, April 19, 2019:

The details in the Mueller Report are “accurately described.”

thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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35 Questions for Bob Mueller

I teamed up with the great @AshaRangappa_ and @jgeltzer.

We came up with a list of questions the public has a right to know.

That's in addition to the 60 excellent questions from Senate Judiciary Committee Dems.

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