jeudi 18 avril 2019

Obstruction à la justice: le rapport Mueller embêtant pour le président


Si la publication du rapport Mueller est une étape important, il ne constitue pas la fin de ce feuilleton. Il y a suffisamment d'informations pour permettre aux Démocrates de gruger l'os jusqu'à la présidentielle 2020. Au-delà de la récupération partisane, il est malgré tout inquiétant de lire sur les pratiques de cette administration.

 "One implication of the report is that Trump may have escaped a finding that he obstructed justice only because his top aides refused to carry out his most dramatic orders. Indeed, Mueller’s team describes several of Trump's actions as satisfying all the legal elements of obstruction.

The 448-page report is the culmination of a nearly two-year-long investigation that has cast a shadow over Trump’s time in office as questions swirled around whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow intermediaries to sway the 2016 election, and whether the president tried to impede an investigation into the matter.

  https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/redacted-mueller-report-released-1280960

Le "Pee tape" de Donald Trump mentionné dans le rapport Mueller


Le rapport Mueller mentionne l'existence de vidéos compromettantes pour Donald Trump. Un texto reçu par Michael Cohen confirme qu'on a endigué la publication de ces vidéos.

 "According to the report, on October 30th, 2016, Trump’s private attorney and fixer Michael Cohen received a text from a Russian businessman involved in the Trump Tower Moscow deal, in progress for more than a year. “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so you know….” Giorgi Rtskhiladze wrote to Cohen. Cohen told investigators he spoke to Trump about the issue after receiving the texts from Rtskhiladze."

  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pee-tape-trump-mueller-report-823755/

Caricature les Démocrates peuvent-ils encore récupérer le rapport Mueller?

Caricature de David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star, Tucson, AZ

Caricature Bernie Sanders et Fox News

Caricature de Bruce Plante, Tulsa World

Publication du rapport Mueller: quatorze informations incontournables


Lire ou ne pas lire en entier le rapport Mueller, telle est la question. Si vous préférez survoler le document ou vous en remettre à des résumés, The Atlantic pointe ici les sections les plus importantes. Vous remarquerez que le rapport contient une bonne part d'ombre. On alimente ainsi ceux qui disent que l'absence de preuves suffisantes ne signifie en rien qu'il n'y a pas eu de crime...

 "The Office learned that some of the individuals we interviewed or whose conduct we investigated—including some associated with the Trump Campaign—deleted relevant communications or communicated during the relevant period using applications that feature encryption or that do not provide for long-term retention of data or communications records. In such cases, the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts. Accordingly, while this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible, given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report."

  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/mueller-report-release-barr-trump/587176/

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Caricature de Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

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