Analysis: After years of waiting, we will finally get to read the Mueller report. The public will be looking for salacious details on collusion. But the most important legal questions all have to do with obstruction.
After years of waiting, we will finally get to read the Mueller report—or at least as much of it as Attorney General William Barr is willing to let the American public read. The redacted version of the report may tell us more about Barr than it tells us about President Donald Trump, and the document is sure to shape the legacy of both men. A few key pieces of the report will speak volumes.
Barr’s legacy will be forever defined by that decision if the report indicates, contrary to what Barr suggested, that Mueller intended to leave the obstruction decision to Congress or the American people. In that scenario, congressional Democrats are sure to distrust Barr’s redactions, will push even harder to see the full report and could take a harder look at obstruction of justice.
One potential factual issue in the obstruction investigation would be a defense by Trump that he had a genuine belief that the Russia investigation was meritless. To be guilty of obstruction, Trump had to have a “corrupt intent” when he undertook actions that undermined the investigation.
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