Mueller Files first Charges (MUELLER CONTENT GOES HERE)

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You have to look at past legal precedence. In cases where something should never have happened (akin to "fruit of the forbidden tree" evidence), like an investigation started by created allegations and Trump's subsequent firing of Comey, is it really "obstructing justice" when there should have no need for justice to be taken in the first place?

Scale it down a bit: a small-town mayor has enemies who don't like him and they make up some bullshit about him that is totally untrue (but that doesn't come out 'til later). The town's police chief begins an investigation of these trumped-up [pun intended] charges. The mayor fires the police chief and it subsequently comes out that all the accusations were fabricated lies. Has the mayor obstructed justice? I say no emphatically, because there never should have been an investigation in the first place. However, the law and order types will say it should have been sorted out in court.

Another analogy: a cop is trying to arrest you for something you didn't do based on a false accusation. You resist and are charged with resisting arrest even though the original charges are proven to be false later. In that case we all know the resisting charge will stick, although I have a fundamental problem with that. Just like Trump's dossier, there should be chares and legal repercussions for the lying accusers.