More than 375 former government workers and appointees said that only Donald Trump being president saved him from being charged with obstruction of justice.
A former assistant to President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is among several hundred ex-federal prosecutors who signed a statement Monday asserting that Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice if not for a policy against indicting a sitting president.
“Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice,” reads the statement signed by ex-prosecutors including Jeffrey Harris, who served as principal assistant to Giuliani when he worked at the Justice Department during the administration of Ronald Reagan.
Harris in the statement posted online Monday listed his highest Justice Department title as deputy associate to the attorney general, and wrote that he served in the department for eight years, and during the Reagan, Bush senior, Carter, Ford and Nixon administrations.
