Adam Schiff: Trump’s ‘Ginned-Up’ Explanations for Firing Mueller Go to Intent in Obstruction of Justice Case

RUSH EXCERPT:

SCHIFF: " Apparently don mcgahn took it seriously and was willing to resign rather than carry it out. I wouldn’t describe this as wallpaper based on what the “New York Times” the “The Washington Post” and others have reported. What leaps out at me about this disclosure, this new report, is how much in common it has with the Comey situation. With the firing of Comey what the president had at his disposal were memos from rod Rosenstein and from Jeff Sessions that provided a pretext, another explanation to give to the public for why Comey was being fired. That is, he treated Hillary Clinton unfairly. Now that is obviously not very plausible and the one who made it clear that was not the real motivation was the president himself. But similarly here with the attempt to fire Bob Mueller, you had the explanations brought up for him, whether it was over golf dues that Bob Mueller had a dispute with the golf club over or it was over some — the fact that the Mueller firm worked with Jared Kushner, even though Mueller didn’t. So this is another effort to present pretext to conceal the real reason for getting rid of Mueller. That does go to the intent in an obstruction case. And the fact that the president wanted to get rid of Jeff Sessions because Jeff Sessions recused himself and why did that bother the president because it led to Bob Mueller. That wasn’t about dues at the golf club, that was about the president perceiving the Russia investigation as a threat and wanting to act on that."