Domain 06
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes
Obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and interference with investigations.
20 entries
Weisselberg Perjury: Felony Conviction for Lying Under Oath During Civil Fraud Trial
2023 - 2024
Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty on March 4, 2024 to two felony counts of perjury in the first degree for lying under oath during the N...
Witness Intimidation and Gag Order Violations: Social Media Attacks During Active Legal Proceedings
2023 - 2024
During multiple simultaneous legal proceedings in 2023 and 2024, Donald Trump used social media platforms, primarily Truth Social, to publicly attack witnesses, prosecutors, judges, and court staff in...
Attacks on Jurors and Witnesses During Active Trials: Gag Order Violations Across Multiple Jurisdictions
2023 - 2024
Across multiple civil and criminal proceedings in 2023 and 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked jurors, witnesses, prosecutors, judges, and their family members on social media and in public stateme...
Executive Privilege Abuse: Claiming Presidential Privilege After Leaving Office to Delay the January 6 Investigation
2021 - 2022
In October 2021, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit to prevent the National Archives and Records Administration from complying with requests by the House Select Committee to Investigate the...
The Seven-Hour Gap: Missing White House Phone Records from January 6, 2021
2021 - 2022
White House records turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in the official log of calls pl...
Destroyed Phone Records: Secret Service Texts from January 5-6, 2021, Deleted During 'Device Migration' After Watchdog Requested Them
2021 - 2022
Text messages sent and received by U.S. Secret Service agents on January 5 and 6, 2021, the two days surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol, were deleted as part of what the agency described as a ...
Mark Meadows's Text Messages: Communications Revealing Coordination on January 6 and His Refusal to Cooperate with the Congressional Investigation
2020 - 2022
Mark Meadows served as White House Chief of Staff during the final year of the Trump presidency. The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol obtained ...
Removal of SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman: Premature Resignation Announcement and Firing During Active Investigation of Trump Allies
2020 - 2020
On the evening of June 19, 2020, Attorney General William Barr issued a press release announcing that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was "stepping down" from...
Blanket Defiance of Congressional Oversight: Refusal to Comply with Impeachment Subpoenas, Blocked Witnesses, Withheld Documents, and the Rejected 'Absolute Immunity' Claim
2019 - 2021
During the House of Representatives' first impeachment inquiry in 2019 and throughout his presidency, Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented strategy of blanket defiance of congressional oversight, ref...
The White House Counsel's Role in the Ukraine Cover-Up: Moving the Call Transcript to a Classified Server and Resisting Congressional Oversight
2019 - 2022
On July 25, 2019, President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call that would become the basis for his first impeachment. During the call, Trump asked Zelens...
Roger Stone's Obstruction and Trump's Intervention: Conviction, Sentencing Override, Prosecutor Resignations, Commutation, and Full Pardon
2019 - 2020
Roger Stone, a longtime political adviser and self-described confidant of Donald Trump, was indicted on January 25, 2019, by a federal grand jury on seven counts: one count of obstruction of an offici...
Paul Manafort's Breach of Cooperation: Lying to Mueller's Prosecutors While Sharing Information with Trump's Legal Team Through a Joint Defense Agreement
2018 - 2020
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign chairman, entered into a cooperation agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office on September 14, 2018, as part of a guilty plea to ...
Hope Hicks and the Misleading Trump Tower Meeting Statement: Crafting a False Narrative Aboard Air Force One
2017 - 2019
On July 8, 2017, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. had met with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, after being promised damaging information about...
Attempts to Fire Special Counsel Mueller and Obstruct the Russia Investigation (2017-2019)
2017 - 2019
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III was appointed on May 17, 2017, to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and any related matters, including potential obstruction of j...
Firing of FBI Director James Comey During Active Russia Investigation (May 2017)
2017 - 2017
On May 9, 2017, President Donald J. Trump terminated FBI Director James B. Comey by delivering a dismissal letter to FBI headquarters while Comey was in Los Angeles. Comey learned he had been fired fr...
Firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates: Dismissed After Refusing to Defend the Travel Ban and Warning About Michael Flynn
2017 - 2017
On January 30, 2017, President Donald Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, ten days into his presidency. The firing occurred less than two hours after Yates issued a letter instructing Dep...
Michael Cohen Testimony: Allegations That Trump Directed False Statements to Congress and Signed Reimbursement Checks in Office
2017 - 2019
Michael Cohen, who served as Donald Trump's personal attorney for over a decade, provided testimony to Congress and to the Special Counsel's office alleging that Trump was directly involved in efforts...
Destroying Evidence Under Investigation: Allegations of Document Shredding, Phone Wiping, and Server Deletion by Trump and His Employees
2017 - 2023
Across multiple investigations and legal proceedings, Trump and employees of his organizations were accused of destroying, concealing, or attempting to destroy evidence relevant to pending investigati...
Tom Barrack Prosecution: Trump's Inaugural Committee Chairman Charged with Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent for the UAE
2016 - 2022
Tom Barrack, a billionaire real estate investor and one of Donald Trump's closest personal friends, was indicted on July 20, 2021, on federal charges of acting as an unregistered agent of the United A...
Hush Money Conspiracy: Catch-and-Kill Scheme with AMI and Michael Cohen
2015 - 2018
Beginning in the summer of 2015, Donald Trump, his personal attorney Michael Cohen, and David Pecker, then chairman and CEO of American Media Inc. (AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer), entered in...