Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff unraveled what was left – if anything – of Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice legal defense.
In a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Rep. Schiff said Trump’s new claim that he didn’t fire James Comey because of the Russia investigation is pure nonsense.
The Democrat said that “millions of viewers” saw Trump say the opposite in his infamous interview with Lester Holt, during which the president admitted that Russia was central to Comey’s removal.
Congressman Schiff said Trump is only now reversing course because he is in “legal jeopardy” and sees the writing on the wall.
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Schiff dismantled Trump’s new narrative:
[Trump] realized he’s in some legal jeopardy, that much of what Mueller is looking at involves the issue of obstruction. That goes to his intent, and he’s got a problem. He laid out his intent for millions of viewers on NBC. In that same mainstream media he is now bashing, he told the American people that he had Russia on his mind when he did it. And of course, the pretext he would now like to us believe – that he fired Comey over Comey’s handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation – doesn’t square at all with the fact he had been praising Comey for exactly that previously. So it really makes no sense from a logical perspective. He’s contradicting himself. But from a legal perspective, he knows he’s in jeopardy and I guess I thinks if he can muddy the waters further it will be that much more difficult for Bob Mueller to establish intent.
Trump can’t back away now
Trump tweeted on Thursday that the media is solely responsible for pushing the narrative that he fired Comey to undermine the Russia investigation.
Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia! The Corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018
Despite this new claim, the facts prove otherwise. Trump has on more than one occasion revealed that his intent all along was to end the Russia investigation, whether that was by firing Comey or pushing members of his administration to be loyal to him.
As Axios reported on Thursday, Trump “pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reclaim control of the Russia investigation on at least four separate occasions.”
There is a long pattern of Trump behavior that points directly to obstruction of justice, and Robert Mueller is well aware of it. No number of deranged tweets are likely to save the president from his harsh reality.
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