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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI Director Wray paging Rudy Giuliani: Obstuction of justice for you is a crime.
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FBI Director Wray paging Rudy Giuliani: Obstuction of justice for you is a crime. (Original Post)
Kingofalldems
Jun 2018
OP
No. He is saying the lawyer can also be indicted for obstruction. When Nosferudy essentially
tblue37
Jun 2018
#3
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)1. I feel like I'm not understanding this tweet.
Someone on Twitter said the same.
It sounds like Wray is saying Trump's lawyer is allowed to obstruct justice.
tblue37
(65,552 posts)3. No. He is saying the lawyer can also be indicted for obstruction. When Nosferudy essentially
dangled the likelihood of pardons to "clean up" the problems caused by the Russian investigation, he was quite possibly committing criminal obstruction.
OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)6. I had to have a few reads of it, but I think you are correct. Rudy can be done for obstruction.
dameatball
(7,411 posts)2. I took it the other way, but maybe you are correct. I don't know either.
shanny
(6,709 posts)5. Look at it this way:
"obstruction of justice" is a crime, period. If the lawyer for the subject of an investigation "obstructs justice" himself, that lawyer has committed a crime.
And that is what Wray confirmed.
dameatball
(7,411 posts)7. Oh okay, I took it that way too. I misread your post. sorry.
shanny
(6,709 posts)8. Sorry! maybe I replied to the wrong person
--I think this thread is a little...er..cross-threaded.
dameatball
(7,411 posts)9. Cross threaded pretty much describes the state of affairs in general....:))
Kingofalldems
(38,516 posts)4. He was saying Giuliani can be indicted for obstruction of justice.