Some very qualified people have a very big wakeup call for President Trump.
After a 2-year investigation into Russian election interference, Special Counsel Robert Mueller left the decision of charging Trump with obstruction of justice up to Attorney General William Barr, and Barr declined to levy those charges. But if it weren't for a Department of Justice policy protecting a sitting president from indictment, Trump would be facing "multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice," 379 former federal prosecutors say in a letter posted to Medium on Monday.
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As of 2 p.m. ET Monday, there were 379 signatories on the list, but the letter welcomed more. They include former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who served in former President Ronald Reagan's DOJ and is now challenging Trump in the GOP primaries. Former President George H.W. Bush's Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer is there, as is a principal assistant to Rudy Giuliani when he worked in Reagan's DOJ. Their careers run as far back as the Eisenhower presidency, The Washington Post notes. Read the whole letter and see its signers here.
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