A single line included in his court filing on Friday suggests Special Counsel Robert Mueller is using all of President Donald Trump’s lies to show a pattern that will prove obstruction of justice.
The bombshell court filing identified Trump as “Individual 1” and named him as an unindicted co-conspirator for coordinating with and directing his former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen to commit two felonies.
But a line in the filing could prove particularly terrifying for Trump considering his history of lying to the American people over the last two years.
As it turns out, Mueller cited Cohen’s repeated “lies to the public” to show that he shifted the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 Election in an effort to limit the investigation, as MSNBC legal analyst Matthew Miller pointed out on Twitter.
This is an interesting line from Mueller: “The defendant amplified his false statements by releasing and repeating his lies to the public, including to other potential witnesses.”
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) December 7, 2018
“By publicly presenting this false narrative, the defendant deliberately shifted the timeline of what had occurred in hopes of limiting the investigations into possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” — Mueller cares if you lie to the public.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) December 7, 2018
The reason why this should terrify Trump is that he has also told multiple lies in order to undermine the probe, and many of them are on his Twitter feed for all to see. In fact, Trump has told over 6,000 lies since taking office, and Mueller could use every last one of them to demonstrate a pattern that a grand jury could see as proof Trump obstructed justice.
For instance, Trump has repeatedly claimed that he has no ties to Russia.
For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2016
I don’t know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy – yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1 in terror, no problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 7, 2017
But that’s exactly what Cohen lied to Congress about since Trump had been negotiating to build a Trump property in Moscow all the way through June 2016, and not January 2016 as Cohen claimed, and all at Trump’s direction.
Trump has literally tweeted about the Russia investigation hundreds of times and Mueller likely has every single one of them on record, including Trump’s admission that his campaign met with Russian agents inside Trump Tower to get “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018
So, Trump has only been digging himself a deeper hole this whole time and now Mueller is about to drop him in it and bury him. And Trump only has himself to blame.
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