Demand a House Judiciary Committee Investigation into Obstruction of Justice!

The Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, VA, oversees Obstruction of Justice and the Department of Justice but has been curiously uninspired to investigate. After James Comey's testimony, the American people deserve to know the truth of Trump's efforts to obstruct the justice department from gathering the evidence and intelligence it requires to ensure the sanctity of our Democracy and safety of Americans. Issue subpoenas and do not honor waivers or protections which those in question have enacted to further obstruct justice and shield themselves from investigation.

The firing of FBI Director Comey, subsequent secret meeting between Trump and Kislyak, followed by the current proposed FBI Director, Christopher Wray, is obstruction of justice by appointment. Not only is Wray the Defense Attorney who represented Trump's friend Chris Christie in his "Bridgegate" scandal, but Wray has significant Russian conflicts of his own. USA Today explained how the entire Russian hacking of the election could be motivated by the ExxonMobil/Russian Oil Giant Deal which he could help seal by dropping the investigation: "his law firm — King & Spalding — represents Rosneft and Gazprom, two of Russia’s largest state-controlled oil companies...Rosneft was prominently mentioned in the now infamous 35-page dossier prepared by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele. The dossier claims that the CEO of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, offered candidate Donald Trump, through Trump’s campaign advisor Carter Page, a 19% stake in the company in exchange for lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia. The dossier claims that the offer was made in July while Page was in Moscow. Rosneft is also the company that had a $500 billion oil drilling joint-venture with Exxon in 2012, when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was Exxon’s CEO. However, the deal was nixed by President Obama in 2014, when he imposed the sanctions that crippled Russia’s ability to do business with U.S. companies. The lifting of sanctions by the Trump administration would enable Exxon to renew its joint venture agreement with Rosneft, and the law firm of King & Spalding could end up in the middle of the contract negotiations between those two companies. The law firm’s representation of Gazprom raises even more serious conflict issues for Wray. Gazprom was a partner in RosUkrEnergo AG (“RUE”), which is controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He is under federal indictment in Chicago for racketeering charges, has had numerous financial dealings with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and is generally considered to be a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle" from USA Today's "Donald Trump's new FBI director pick has Russian ties of his own" on June 8, 2017

The House Judiciary Committee must conduct a thorough investigation of its own into these matters. It is a vital component to the other investigations surrounding Trump's Russian business ties, Russian hacking and interference during the campaign and the investigation of cooperation between them, the coverups of conversations between Mike Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner, potentially Trump himself and Sergey Kislyak, Kushner and the Chair of VEB bank, Russians funding Republican 2016 campaigns, the Dutch investigation of Bayrock, Felix Sater and Trump's Money Laundering involvement, Steve Bannon's Cambridge Analytica, DeVos' Spectrum Health in communication with Trump Tower's server and Alfa Bank during the campaign, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and other matters known and unknown to the American People.

The Congress must embrace these investigations and conduct its own Independent Investigation into the Obstruction of Justice by the Trump Administration for American Democracy to mean anything here or abroad.

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