smr wrote:SMR replies, "Why am I laughing because he was totally cleared of Conspiracy Charges (Collusion).
No he was NOT cleared. Read the goddamn report.
It's very hard to charge and prove obstruction of Justice when he did not commit the original crime.
No, actually it is not. People are charged with obstruction all the time without being charged with an underlying crime, for obvious reasons. Often the obstruction is what prevented prosecutors from being able to prove the underlying crime in the first place. The charged person destroyed evidence... or lied to prosecutors and investigators... or intimidated witnesses or suborned perjury... all to make sure law enforcement couldn't put together a case that would stick.
If you were saying you could only charge them with a crime for doing all of that if it DIDN'T WORK you would be insentivizing them to obstruct justice as effectively as they could to make sure it did work. EVERYONE would be destroying evidence and threatening witnesses into lying all the damn time because if they prevented the underlying crime from being proven they couldn't be charged with the obstruction either! Yay!
That would be MONUMENTALLY STUPID.
Mueller documented EXTENSIVE efforts by Trump and people associated with him to obstruct the investigation. That is a crime. PERIOD.
(Oh, and there were PLENTY of charged underlying crimes in case you didn't notice. People are currently in jail for them)