[New York Times] For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.
Talking, when someone is listening, can cause you problems. Twitter is basically talking out loud, yes?
Those concerns now turn out to be well founded
Breathless pause.
Several of the remarks came as Mr. Trump was also privately pressuring the men ‐ both key witnesses in the inquiry ‐ about the investigation, and Mr. Mueller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by both intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry.
Tamp it down? Doesn't he have the power to squash it?
Mr. Mueller wants to question the president about the tweets.
He didn't know the POTUS used them until Obama told him to check into that.
His interest in them is the latest addition to a range of presidential actions
Possible pardon offers. Yeah, look into that. Maybe he offered Flynn a pardon.
None of what Mr. Mueller has homed in on constitutes obstruction, Mr. Trump's lawyers said. They argued that most of the presidential acts under scrutiny, including the Let Mueller keep digging while Trump keeps winning.
But privately, some of the lawyers have expressed concern that Mr. Mueller will stitch together several episodes, encounters and pieces of evidence, like the tweets, to build a case that the president embarked on a broad effort to interfere with the investigation.
Hey! Maybe he daydreamed about shooting Comey to pieces. How about a lie-detector test? Psychoanalysis? Mind reading?
Prosecutors who lack one slam-dunk piece of evidence in obstruction cases often search for a larger pattern of behavior, legal experts said.The special counsel's investigators have told Mr. Trump's lawyers they are examining the tweets under a wide-ranging obstruction-of-justice law beefed up after the Enron accounting scandal, according to the three people. The investigators did not explicitly say they were examining possible witness tampering,
Maybe Mueller tampered with Flynn and Manafort to get them to roll over on the POTUS?
A spokesman for Mr. Mueller's office declined to comment.
Mr. Trump's lead lawyer in the case, Rudolph W. Giuliani, dismissed Mr. Mueller's interest in the tweets as part of a desperate quest to sink the president.
But the Slimes dismisses that, too. I have more important things to do. RTWT, for the entertainment value!