Trump’s seething Russia probe tweets may return to haunt him as evidence in an obstruction trial

President Donald Trump bluntly declared on Twitter that his attorney general should terminate “right now” the federal probe into the campaign that took him to the White House.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders scrambled to explain that Trump’s tweet Wednesday was “not an order” and instead, just an opinion.

But Trump’s early morning tweetstorm revived the idea that the president’s tweets themselves might be used as evidence that he is attempting to obstruct justice.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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