Legally it is true, but it is not the whole story.
The fact is, there was a witch hunt for Trump, and he knew it.
If there was a mob at your door, brandishing torches and stakes, and you refused to open the door and “cooperate” — but it was illegal to not cooperate — would you really be guilty?
Bill Clinton was the victim of a witch hunt as well. Did he do some inappropriate things? Yes. But so has everyone — everyone. Were those inappropriate things really germane to Clinton’s job? No. In the end, Clinton was impeached based on the wild card that always gets pulled out whenever relevant evidence cannot be found: obstruction — i.e., a failure to “cooperate”.
Indeed, Sandra Bland’s arrest for “not cooperating” illustrates the power of the “failure to cooperate” narrative: it gives the police and prosecutors — and those who manipulate them — unlimited power to achieve their objective, no matter what it is. It is a police state’s dream charge.
I am not defending Trump. I did not vote for him. I hate that he is undoing regulations that protect the environment and that he is doing his best to empower big business. I am just saying that I don’t trust the system, especially in this case; that I think that there was a witch hunt, and it disgusts me.
Instead of focusing on issues that matter to me, the Democratic party has been spending all its time obstructing the current administration.
I guess that they are allowed to obstruct things, but others are not.