Former Attorney General Eric Holder says Mueller will charge TRUMP with obstruction of justice
Holder told Bill Maher there’s an obstruction of justice case that already exists’
The former attorney general said he believes Mueller is trying to ‘make the case as good as he possibly can’
An obstruction of justice charge against Trump has been speculated ever since Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last year
By VALERIE EDWARDS
DAILYMAIL.COM
4 March 2018
Former Attorney General Eric Holder has predicted that special counsel Robert Mueller will charge President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice.
In an interview with HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Holder said there is an ‘obstruction of justice case that already exists’.
‘I’ve known Bob Mueller for 20, 30 years; my guess is he’s just trying to make the case as good as he possibly can. So, I think that we have to be patient in that regard,’ Holder said.
An obstruction of justice charge has long been speculated ever since Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in the midst of an investigation into potential ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.
‘I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department,’ Trump told the New York Times in December 2017.
Holder, who served under then-President Barack Obama, also blasted Trump for saying he ‘protected’ Obama during his time in office.
‘The difference between me and [Attorney General] Jeff Sessions — I had a president I did not have to protect,’ Holder told Maher.
Holder was referring to that same Times interview last year in which Trump told the newspaper that Holder ‘protected’ Obama during his presidency.
‘I don’t want to get into loyalty, but I will tell you that, I will say this: Holder protected President Obama. Totally protected him,’ Trump said at the time.
At the time Holder slammed Trump for the remarks, calling them ‘wrong’ and ‘dangerous’.
On Friday, during his interview with Maher, Holder echoed that response, saying: ‘So, this notion that I am somehow protecting Obama from things that he had done inappropriately or illegally is simply not true.’
Holder’s remarks come just days after Trump criticized Sessions on Twitter.
Sessions stood up to Trump last week in an extraordinary response to his boss after the president ripped him online for having an independent internal watchdog review alleged warrant abuse.
‘DISGRACEFUL,’ Trump had tweeted.
Sessions, who has been on the receiving end of multiple presidential shots throughout his turbulent tenure, defended his own ‘integrity and honor’ in the face of Trump’s attack on Wednesday evening.
Despite the renewed tension, the president did not seem ready to cut him loose on Thursday afternoon, giving him a shout out at a White House opioid summit.
And then on Saturday, Trump made a joke about his salty relationship with Sessions.
‘But Attorney General Sessions is here with us tonight,’ Trump said at the annual Gridiron dinner Satuday. Sessions was sitting about 10 feet away from him at the dais.
‘I offered him a ride and he recused himself,’ the president said to laughs.
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