The first part of the Mueller Report found that there was no conspiracy. "Ultimately , the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities."
However, the second part does not make a conclusion. "At the same time , if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
These are the eleven charges as laid out in the Table of Contents of the Obstruction of Justice Investigation. I have changed the wording.
A. The Trump Campaign benefited, through WikiLeaks, from the Russian hacking of the Democratic emails, and sought further information about the leaks, while simultaneously denying that Russia was responsible for the hacks.
B. Trump fired Flynn in part in order to stop the Russian investigation by Comey.
C. Trump attempted to stop the special investigation by Mueller by attempting to get Sessions to un-recuse and by reaching out to Comey. He also attempted to get the Director of National Intelligence, the the leaders of the CIA and NSA to stop the investigation.
D. Trump fired Comey in an attempt to stop the investigation and lied about why he had fired him.
E. Trump attempted to get McGahn to fire Mueller.
F. Trump attempted to get Lewandowski and Priebus to fire Mueller.
G. Trump attempted to cover up a June 9, 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer who was offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
H. Trump again attempted to have Sessions un-recuse himself in October 2017 and December 2017.
I. Trump attempted to get McGahn to lie about the earlier attempt to fire Mueller.
J. Trump attempted to have Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone keep quiet about the investigation.
K. Trump called Michael Cohen a "rat" after he "flipped".
I'm going to go through these in turn when I have time.
See also https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/10-times-trump-might-have-obstructed-justice
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