FBI opened obstruction case against Trump before Mueller was appointed, court files show

Posted by mminnick 4 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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A newly unsealed court document reveals the FBI opened an obstruction of justice case against President Trump before Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Trump claimed earlier this year that he was assured by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein he was not a target or subject of Mueller's probe.
But the final Mueller report showed his investigators looked closely at the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, while not reaching a conclusion. And according to the court document released this week, that avenue of investigation was being pursued before Mueller even took over. Michael Dreeben, an attorney for the special counsel’s office, said in a January 2018 hearing in federal court that in 2017, “Before the appointment of the Special Counsel on May 17th, the FBI had opened up an investigation into obstruction of justice.”

Questio: WTF?
There was no basis for the Mueller investigation. The was an Obstruction investigation PRIOR to Mueller investigation.
None of this sounds proper (and it's not. I repeat my first question: WTF???
SOURCE URL: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-opened-obstruction-case-against-trump-before-mueller-was-appointed


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