During the holiday break, we incorporated new and revised entries based on Volume II of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. It describes Trump’s obstruction of the Russia investigation. As Trump and Don McGahn exhaust appeals of the lower court’s order compelling McGahn’s congressional testimony, that topic is increasingly relevant.
But with or without McGahn’s testimony, Mueller’s evidence will be relevant to the second article of impeachment against Trump. It includes this ticking bomb:
“These actions [relating to Ukraine] were consistent with President Trump’s previous efforts to undermine United States Government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections.”
Trump may have thought that he was out of Mueller’s woods. He’s not.
Here is a list of the Mueller obstruction updates to the Trump-Russia Timeline at Dan Rather’s News & Guts and Just Security:
REVISED: FEB. 14, 2017: Trump Considers Public Explanations for Flynn Resignation, Tells Christie ‘Russia Thing Is All Over’ and to Contact Comey
FEB. 22-23, 2017: Trump Wants McFarland to Resign, Requests Letter About Flynn; Directs Priebus to Reach Out to Flynn
REVISED: MARCH 2, 2017: Sessions Recuses Himself From Russia Investigation One Hour After Trump Says He Shouldn’t
REVISED: MARCH 3, 2017: Trump Vents Anger About Sessions Recusal
MAR. 5-6, 2017: FBI Asks White House for Flynn Records; Trump Wants to Know if He’s Being Investigated
MAR. 9, 2017: Comey Briefs Congressional ‘Gang of Eight’
MAR. 21, 2017: Trump ‘Getting Hotter and Hotter’ About Comey
REVISED: MAR. 25-26, 2017: Trump Calls Coats and Rogers For Help in Russia Investigation
LATE MARCH-EARLY APRIL 2017: Trump Tells Flynn to ‘Stay Strong’
REVISED: MAY 17, 2017: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Named Special Counsel, Assumes Control of Counterintelligence Investigation into Trump
SOMETIME BETWEEN MAY 17 and JULY 19, 2017: Trump Asks Sessions to ‘Unrecuse’ Himself
JUNE 17, 2017: Trump Tells McGahn to Have Rosenstein Remove Mueller; Asks Christie for Reaction
JUNE 22, 2017: Discussions About June 9, 2016 Trump Tower Meeting
JUNE 28-29, 2017: Hicks Sees Trump Tower Meeting Emails, Shares Concerns with Trump
JULY 21-22, 2017: Trump Orders Priebus to Demand Sessions’ Resignation; McGahn Overrules Trump
AUG. 18, 2017: Cohen Initial Draft Statement to Congress is Filled With Lies; Shares it With Trump’s Lawyers Who Discuss Possible Pardon
AUG. 27, 2017: Cohen Speaks With Trump’s Lawyer About Testimony
REVIISED:SEPT. 19, 2017: Michael Cohen Issues False Statement on Trump Tower-Moscow to Shape Narrative for Other Witnesses
SEPT. 20, 2017: Trump’s Lawyer to Cohen: Trump is Pleased
OCT. 16, 2017: Trump Complains to Sessions: Investigate Clinton
REVISED: OCT. 24-25, 2017: Cohen Appears Before Congress; Testifies Falsely
REVISED: NOV. 22-23, 2017: Flynn Withdraws from Joint Defense Agreement with Trump; Trump’s Lawyers Make Threats
DEC. 6, 2017: Trump Suggests That Session ‘Unrecuse’ Himself
JAN. 26, 2018: Trump’s Attorney to McGahn’s Attorney: Deny Story That Trump Wanted McGahn to Fire Mueller
FEB. 4, 2018: Priebus Says He Never Heard That Trump Wanted to Fire Mueller
FEB. 5-6, 2018: Trump Tells McGahn to Lie; McGahn Refuses