Thread by @rgoodlaw: "Barr '18 memo: "if a President...commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity…of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the cr […]"

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Barr '18 memo: "if a President...commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity…of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction"

Mueller report: Trump "ORDERED" White House Counsel to create false record to impair "ongoing investigation." 1/

2. Greatest criminal exposure for Trump: ordering White House Counsel to create false record (record denying POTUS tried to fire Special Counsel).

Mueller's conclusion: incident satisfies all three elements for obstruction.

(and Trump made "repeated efforts." McGahn refused.)

3. Klobuchar: "You said that a president deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence would be obstruction. Is that correct?"

Barr: "Yes"

Klobuchar: "You wrote…that if a president knowingly destroys or alters evidence that would be obstruction?"

Barr:“Yes”

4. Here's the video of Klobuchar and Barr exchange via @kylegriffin1