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Undated: Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is the crime of obstructing prosecutors or other (usually government) officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice.

Obstruction also applies to overt coercion of court or government officials via the means of threats or actual physical harm, and also applying to deliberate sedition against a court official to undermine the appearance of legitimate authority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice

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June 10: [Senator Diane] Feinstein calls for investigation of 'all matters related to obstruction of justice'
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/politics/dianne-feinstein-chuck-grassley-judiciary-committee-investigation/index.html

December 4: John Dowd, President Trump's outside lawyer... The "President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution's Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case" ...

"The tweet did not admit obstruction. That is an ignorant and arrogant assertion."

But Dems will fight the Dowd theory ... "It is certainly possible for a president to obstruct justice. The case for immunity has its adherents, but they based their position largely on the consideration that a president subject to prosecution would be unable to perform the duties of the office, a result that they see as constitutionally intolerable."

The Articles of Impeachment against Nixon began by saying he "obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice."
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html

December 5: 19 Times President Trump May Have Obstructed Justice
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/times-president-trump-obstructed-justice.html

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January 26: How Trump Built an Obstruction of Justice Case Against Himself

The president’s pattern of behavior may be enough to surmount the high legal threshold for proving that he sought to stifle the special counsel’s investigation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/how-trump-built-an-obstruction-of-justice-case-against-himself/551588/


February 27: Trump may not know how obstruction of justice works.

It’s another day in the Trump administration, so the president is stringing together a series of tweets based on friendly Fox News programming about how he has not committed any crimes.

Mixing things up from his usual routine of live-tweeting Fox & Friends, Trump instead provided a kind of greatest hits collection of recent Fox News coverage of his administration. He strikes the familiar notes: that his campaign did not collude with Russia, that he did not obstruct justice as president, that Hillary Clinton is the real criminal, and, of course, WITCH HUNT.

But one point here stands out. Trump quotes Clinton-era special prosecutor Ken Starr saying that Trump did not obstruct justice because, as president, it was completely lawful for him to fire the FBI director. That may be true, but it is also not how obstruction of justice works.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/147211/trump-may-not-know-obstruction-justice-works


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July 26: Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/trump-tweets-mueller-obstruction.html


August 9: Trump's 'Perjury Trap': Confess to Obstruction or Lie ...
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/trumps-perjury-trap-confess-to-obstruction-or-lie.html


August 20: Trump attacks 'disgraced' Mueller and rails against 'phony' obstruction ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/trump-mueller-obstruction-russia-investigation-phony

August 22:
Trump’s real problem is that he obstructed justice, and Mueller can prove it. Here’s how.

The president was already in jeopardy before Michael Cohen’s guilty plea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/08/22/trumps-real-problem-is-that-he-obstructed-justice-mueller-can-prove-it-heres-how/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.aac71c07d3ed

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August 29: McGahn Gave Mueller Proof That Trump Obstructed Justice
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/08/29/mcgahn-gave-mueller-proof-that-trump-obstructed-justice/

October 17: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the November midterm elections as he faces intensifying pressure to produce more indictments or shut down his investigation, according to two U.S. officials.

Specifically, Mueller is close to rendering judgment on two of the most explosive aspects of his inquiry: whether there were clear incidents of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and whether the president took any actions that constitute obstruction of justice, according to one of the officials, who asked not to be identified speaking about the investigation.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/crime-legal-world/robert-mueller-said-ready-deliver-key-findings-trump-probe/#.W83y_aUoHTQ


December 3: Trump’s latest tweets cross clear lines, experts say: Obstruction of justice and witness tampering
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/03/trumps-latest-tweets-cross-clear-lines-experts-say-obstruction-justice-witness-tampering/?utm_term=.4744bd010568


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December 20: Trump's pick for attorney general warns Mueller's obstruction inquiry 'fatally misconceived' in memo to DOJ

Former Attorney General William "Bill" Barr, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department, reached a decisive and controversial conclusion that Trump's interactions with ex-FBI Director James Comey would not constitute obstruction of justice, according to a copy of a newly released June 2018 memo to senior Justice officials.

The fact that Barr weighed in on such a sensitive issue and would be poised to oversee special counsel Robert Mueller's work, if confirmed as attorney general, will undoubtedly now thrust his nomination into greater controversy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/politics/bill-barr-comey-obstruction/index.html


December 20: William Barr Agrees With Trump's Lawyers: Firing Comey Wasn't Obstruction of Justice

Trump’s nominee made a case to the Justice Department that the president couldn’t have broken the law—and that the special counsel could be fired for looking into it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/william-barrs-memo-about-mueller-parrots-trumps-own-argument-he-cant-obstruct-justice

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January 13: Three newly empowered Democratic House committee chairmen, alarmed by statements over the weekend by President Trump about his former lawyer’s planned testimony before Congress, cautioned on Sunday that any effort to discourage or influence a witness’s testimony could be construed as a crime.

The warning, a stark and unusual message from some of Congress’s most influential Democrats, underscores the increasing legal and political peril facing Mr. Trump. Democrats are beginning their own investigations of him as the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, appears to move toward a conclusion in his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and potential obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-cohen-testimony.html

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