I admit - as a British subject - I find much about The US Justice System perplexing.
Ordering the selective release of documents by investigatory and prosecuting authorities in the course of an investigation looks like obstruction to me, especially if those documents have some bearing on your own culpability.
Because of that I tried to find out a little more about what had gone on and was going on.
It’s provided a little reassurance…and confirmation that tRump isn’t, how can I put it?, all there.
So the White House announced, on behalf of the POTUS, that declassification of several documents - that had something to do with ongoing Russia investigations - had been ordered by the POTUS himself.
I couldn’t help but ask: Where is that nice Mr McGahn in all this?
I found out that White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had explained that Trump “…directed the declassification of some documents and public release of others ‘[a]t the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency.’”
Ms Sanders was asked about the documents, which set out the WH order for the declassifications and release.
How about a little transparency about the process?
Apparently the estimable Ms Sanders answered: “There isn’t anything else, just the statement.”
Woodward’s book title, Fear, seems to describe the situation very well. I’m not taking bets on who has the most to fear.