{"id":312889,"date":"2017-06-15T06:17:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-being-probed-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice-report\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T06:17:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:17:18","slug":"trump-being-probed-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-being-probed-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump being probed for possible obstruction of justice: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is currently under investigation for possible obstruction of justice, according to a report published in a leading American newspaper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post, <\/em>citing unnamed US officials, reported on Wednesday the special counsel, <span style=\"color:black\">Robert Mueller,<\/span> overseeing a probe into the alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election is now investigating whether the US president tried to obstruct justice, which is a criminal offense.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Post <\/em>report, senior US intelligence officials have agreed to be interviewed by investigators working for the special counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, Admiral Mike Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, and his recently departed deputy, Richard Ledgett, are among those to be interviewed as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller, who was appointed to lead the FBI investigation into Russia&#8217;s alleged ties to the 2016 US presidential election, briefed Senators&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/15\/525332\/Trump-being-probed-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is currently under investigation for possible obstruction of justice, according to a report published in a leading American newspaper. The Washington Post, citing unnamed US officials, reported on Wednesday the special counsel, Robert Mueller, overseeing a probe into the alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election is now investigating whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-312889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}