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hongkonger
Trump has committed the felony of obstruction of justice on several occasions, including several tweets, this one being the latest.
I hate that fat orange-hair pathological liar to my bones, but simply *tweeting* that the person in charge of Meuller should can him to stop the investigation is, IMO, NOT obstruction. Even if Trump pulled a Saturday Night Massacre to get Meuller fired, even that wouldn’t be obstruction because, as in Nixon’s case, the investigation would still continue, albeit under a different leader, acting or otherwise. But it Trump ordered some persons in the government law enforcement system, e.g. US marshalls or a group of FBI agents from another office, to confiscate all records collected to date and prevent any others to be examined by the team investogstions, *that* would be obstruction.
Meaning, Trump tweeting like is he’s doing, even lately, is posturing, not obstruction. But it *could* end up being effective if enough Republicans in Congress give him cover against being impeached.