Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our two-part series featuring constitutional and public interest lawyer, public speaker, political activist and educator Daniel Sheehan.
Sheehan serves as Chief Counsel of the Romero Institute, where he has advocated on behalf of the Lakota People's Law Project. He also teaches at UCSC (the University of California Santa Cruz), delivering lectures on climate change, the potential impeachment of Donald J. Trump and the Standing Rock Movement against the Dakota Access pipeline, among others.
Today, you will hear Part 2 of Sheehan's Trajectory of Justice course offered in 2019, focusing on the Robert Mueller report and the Special Counsel investigation. The Special Counsel investigation was an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and incriminating links between Donald Trumps inner circle and Russian officials. It was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019. Since July 2016, the FBI covertly investigated activities by Russian operatives and by members of Trumps presidential campaign, using the code name Crossfire Hurricane.
In May 2017, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Within eight days, following a call to action by Democratic lawmakers and revelations by Comey, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller, a former FBI director, to take over the FBI's investigation. The investigation officially concluded on March 22, 2019, when the Mueller Report was submitted to Attorney General Bob Barr, who many say misrepresented the reports findings. By July 2019, Mueller testified to Congress that Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice (or other crimes) after he left office. Since then, efforts to impeach Trump based on the Mueller investigation have floundered. Today, Sheehan discusses what the Mueller investigation missed and what he thinks is next for the future of Trump and the United States.
