Trump would be "probably indicted for obstruction" if he was not president

BThe eing president is saving President Trump from being accused of obstructing justice, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said Sunday.

Yates said that if the legal council office had not determined that the sitting presidents could not be indicted, Trump would likely have been charged as a result of the 448 report's findings. Special advocate Robert Mueller's pages published this Wednesday month.

"I have been a prosecutor for almost 30 years. I can tell you that I have personally prosecuted cases of obstruction for much fewer evidence than that, "Yates said. "And, yes, I believe that he was not the president of the United States, he would probably be charged with obstruction."

Although she stated that Mueller was providing legal defenses for some potential obstructive acts in the report, Mr. Yates added that "he described several incidents for which the special advocate Mueller has not really been able to report any significant or factual legal defenses. "

Yates quoted passages of former White House lawyer Don McGahn as particularly overwhelming. Mueller's team discovered that Trump had asked McGahn to find a way to have Mueller dismissed, but McGahn refused. In addition, Mueller investigators determined that when the news of the order had been announced, Trump had pressured McGahn to deny that it was true.

Yates served as Deputy Attorney General of former President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017 and briefly served as Acting Attorney General for ten days in 2017, until she was fired for his objection to a decree restricting the movement of seven Muslim-majority countries.