Sources: Mueller Is Investigating Trump for Obstruction

Devlin Barrett, Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post reported last night that Special Counsel Bob Mueller has expanded his probe into include an investigation of whether Donald Trump has attempted to obstruct justice.

Trump had received private assurances from then-FBI Director James B. Comey starting in January that he was not personally under investigation. Officials say that changed shortly after Comey's firing.

Whoooooooooops! Shortly after Comey's firing, huh? Like maybe two days later? When Trump gave that interview to Lester Holt during which he openly admitted firing Comey to obstruct him?

Trump doesn't have anyone to blame but himself that he's being investigated for obstruction. But he's definitely trying to blame someone else, every chance he gets. His morning tweetshitz today, following the disclosure he's being investigated:

They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2017

You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people! #MAGA

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2017

When an outsized martyr complex meets delusions of grandeur!

Not true even if we agree to pretend that actual witch hunts in this nation's history weren't political. https://t.co/SuWF4kp9eV

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) June 15, 2017

Anyway. As I keep saying, there is no guarantee of accountability, even if Mueller's investigation concludes that Trump's actions met the legal definition of obstruction:

Investigating Trump for possible crimes is a complicated affair, even if convincing evidence of a crime were found. The Justice Department has long held that it would not be appropriate to indict a sitting president. Instead, experts say, the onus would be on Congress to review any findings of criminal misconduct and then decide whether to initiate impeachment proceedings.

And that, of course, is very unlikely to happen with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress, who long ago abandoned patriotism for power at any cost.