Comment on Benjamin Wittes: It's Not Just Obstruction, It's Lying About Collusion

Benjamin Wittes: It's Not Just Obstruction, It's Lying About Collusion

Morning Joe opened with Buzzfeed's bombshell story from last night, saying that Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the ongoing Moscow deal. (The original story is reported as sourced with law enforcement officials, which tells me the source is more likely from the SDNY investigation than Mueller's.) "This was reported out and the report does say these federal investigators, law enforcement officials, say that Mueller has it backed up not just by Michael Cohen but by e-mails, texts and other documents by the special counsel's office," Willie Geist said to legal expert Benjamin Wittes. "The story is a big deal for, I think, three independent reasons, or maybe interrelated reasons," Wittes said. "The first is that, as Mika's introduction suggests, this is, if true, an obstruction of justice by anybody's standard, including the relatively restrictive ones laid out in Bill Barr's memo.

 

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