re: Conservative Think Tank: Trump ‘Obstructed Justice’ When He Fired Comey

"Firing the former FBI director was well within within Trump’s legal authority as the nation’s ultimate decider in the executive branch, but IF Comey was fired for the purposes of hindering the probe into allegations of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, then Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice, the authors claim."

I'm pretty sure everyone already knew that it was obstruction of justice if Trump's motive was to shut down the investigation. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff here. Proving his motive is going to be difficult though since Trump could easily claim that Comey was fired due to gross incompetence as he demonstrated many times in dealing with Hillary.