In an interview with Axios, President Trump’s outside lawyer John Dowd dismissed the Democrats’ threats of “obstruction of justice” charges against the president. Dowd’s argument against the obstruction case was simple: A sitting president “cannot obstruct justice.” As for the Democrats’ claim that Trump’s tweet about Mike Flynn lying to the FBI was evidence of obstruction, Dowd slammed it as “an ignorant and arrogant assertion.”
“[The President of the United States] cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case,” Dowd told Axios in an interview published Monday.
Dowd has taken the blame for a tweet issued on Trump’s twitter account on Saturday that caused a stir on Capitol Hill and inspired Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein to tell “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Senate Judiciary Committee is building an “obstruction of justice” case against the White House.
“I think what we’re beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice,” said Feinstein. “I think we see this in the indictments — the four indictments and pleas that have just taken place — in some of the comments that are being made. I see it in the hyper-frenetic attitude of the White House, the comments every day, the continual tweets, and I see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of [former FBI] Director Comey, and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the Russia investigation. That’s obstruction of Justice.”
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