Will Trump be indicted after the midterms? That is a question raised by Chris Walker in a Truthout article. Walker is a news writer at Truthout. He focuses on local (Madison, WI) and national issues and has written thousands of articles. His article caught my eye.
Could it be that Trump may have exhausted his twists and turns to avoid being criminally indicted for crimes such as obstruction of justice during the Mueller investigation? Or will he be brought in by the Department of Justice to explain why he was hoarding thousands of documents, which he stole out of the White House? Some of the documents were “top secret.”
As Walker clearly points out in his article, much of what he reports is speculation. Walker stated that his sources do not have access to the inner workings of the Department of Justice.
If you haven’t read the Mueller Report, I recommend that you do, or at least take a look at Part II of the report. In this part of the report, Mueller’s investigators outline eleven instances that explain how Donald Trump obstructed justice. The underlying goal of Trump was to undermine, stop or create disorder to Mueller’s investigation. You will be able to download (for free) the report from the Justice Department server.
The Trump Files
A few weeks ago, I was in a shop on Marietta Square with my wife. A friend told two young women that I had written a book. They asked about it. What is its title? What’s your book about? This was a great chance to test out my elevator speech.
I said “The book is titled The Trump Files. You won’t have to wait years to learn the history of what happened during the years Trump was in office. I said to them that I kept a kind of diary, which we call blog in world of the Internet. I’ve been writing my blog/diary since 2005. The blog posts (diary entries) tell stories about the Trump administration affected us. Some of the stories are about politics. Many are how science was diminished and our public health put at risk.
I concluded my pitch by saying “I hope the Trump Files will help you understand what happened in our country during the years Trump was president.” I don’t know if this had an effect on them, but they were very interested in the topic, and said they would look for my book. Whether they do or not, it was good feedback for the author.
Blog Post
Now, let’s get back to what Chris Walker raised in his article. I agree with his sources that Trump should be re-investigated for his interference in the ongoing search for truth about the 2016 election interference by the Russians, and whether there was any collusion amongst the Russians and those in the Trump administration orbit. Mueller concluded there was. But, to hear Trump and his then attorney general Bill Barr, there was none what so ever. Jeffrey Tobin wrote that Barr’s written and oral comments undermined and diluted the Mueller report to such a degree that common knowledge was that there was no collusion and Trump did nothing wrong.
The foundation for The Trump Files, as mentioned above, was my blog posts from 2015 – 2021. The blog post shown below is my view of Trump’s potential criminal activity revealed in the Mueller Report. Eleven possible obstruction events are described in the post. There is enough detail about these events that should have resulted in Trump’s impeachment. Mueller didn’t pursue them because he accepted the Department of Justice that a sitting president can not be charged. He should have been impeached.
I wrote in The Trump Files that
To some journalists, the Mueller investigation failed. It failed because it didn’t conclude that Trump obstructed justice when the report out- lines how he tried to stop the investigation. Mueller gave Donald Trump a pass. Mueller did not investigate Trump’s history and financial past. Nor did he pursue the question of Trump’s affinity for Putin. And why didn’t Mueller request a grand jury subpoena for Trump’s testimony?
Jack Hassard, The Trump Files, p. 125.
Trump should be Indicted
There are many events that happened during the past six years that warrant the te-investigation of Trump. Some would include the January 6th insurrection, Trump’s theft of hundreds of government documents when he left office, and the “perfect phone call to the president of Ukraine. These separately are warranted. But I think the Justice Department could use the Mueller Report and its thousands of supporting documents to indict the former president.
In Part III of The Trump Files, which I titled “Scrutiny,” I explained that Trump was under investigation for nearly his entire time in office. He was not only scrutinized by the press, but by the government of which he was president. Here’s is what I said,
He was under scrutiny even before he was elected president. During his first year in office, a special prosecutor, Robert S. Mueller, was named to investigate if any coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia existed with the intent of interfering in the 2016 election. In 2019 Trump was impeached for abuse of power by bribing the president of Ukraine to investigate the actions of Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in exchange for $400 million in military aid. On January 6, 2021, Trump incited a mob that stormed the US Capitol with the intent of overthrowing the 2020 election by “taking the country back.” Finally, he was impeached a second time for inciting the insurrection and seditious acts.
Jack Hassard, The Trump Files, p. 121.
But today, Chief Justice John Roberts blocked a House committee from obtaining Trump’s tax records. What’s next?
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