Trump's Attacks on Jeff Sessions and the DOJ Are Reaching Absurd New Levels
There’s a reason why Rudy Giuliani and the rest of Donald Trump’s legal team have steadfastly refused to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to question the president about obstruction of justice. A dossier could be compiled just on the Trump’s repeated attempts to hinder the investigation into his campaign’s relationship with Russia. He’s done it behind closed doors. He’s done it on national television. He’s done it with his Twitter account, so much so Mueller is reportedly considering Trump’s tweets as part of the probe. On Labor Day, Trump served up a few more softballs for the special counsel’s team, tweeting that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should have protected Republican lawmakers from being indicted in order to give the party a better chance of maintaining control of Congress this November.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Not only is Trump obstructing justice by pressuring Sessions to somehow intervene in these investigations — or at least expressing disappointment that he didn’t, thus pressuring him to block future indictments — he’s laying out a blatant disregard for the America’s judicial system. Former Justice Department officials were appalled. “This is so dangerous and stupid it’s mind boggling. This is a fundamental threat to the rule of law,” tweeted Eric Holder, who served as attorney general for the majority of President Obama’s tenure. “Repeatedly trying to pervert DOJ into a weapon to go after his adversaries, and now shamelessly complaining that DOJ should protect his political allies to maintain his majority in the midterms, is nothing short of an all out assault on the rule of law,” wrote Sally Yates, the former deputy attorney general who held the top spot on an acting basis before Sessions was sworn in. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin added that the “tweet, by itself, may be an impeachable offense.”
The two “popular Republican Congressmen” to whom Trump is referring are Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) and Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Collins was the first representative to publicly endorse Trump during the 2016 campaign, and Hunter wasn’t far behind. On August 8th, Collins was indicted on a number of charges relating to insider trading. Not only is there plenty of damming evidence in the indictment, which alleges that Collins illegally sold stock in Innate Immunotherapeutics Limited after receiving non-public information that a drug test the company conducted had failed, there is a video of Collins calling his son from the White House lawn informing him of the news. Though Trump describes this as an Obama-era investigation, the call was made in June 2017.
A few weeks after Collins was indicted, Hunter and his wife were charged with wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations and conspiracy. At the center of the allegations was the gross misuse of Hunter’s campaign funds, which the couple used to cover everything from dental bills to family vacations to Italy. According to the indictment, when Hunter expressed a need to buy shorts, his wife instructed him to buy them from the pro shop at a golf course so they could falsely pass off the purchase as “some [golf] balls for wounded warriors.” When Hunter, a veteran himself, was interviewed about the charges, he blamed the violations on his wife. “She handled my finances,” he told Martha MacCallum of Fox News. “Whatever she did, that will be looked at, too, I’m sure,” he added. “But I didn’t do it. I didn’t spend any money illegally.”
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He's guilty. Sometimes they present themselves in a similar way. 
