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Can the US president obstruct justice? Yes he can.

"Donald Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd, is not alone in arguing that the president is immune to the usual constitutional checks and balances.

If the president cannot obstruct justice, what on earth did Congress think it was doing when it drafted articles of impeachment against presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton on precisely these grounds? If a president destroys evidence germane to a criminal investigation, what is that if not obstruction of justice? The answer seems so obvious that it’s hard to take seriously claims to the contrary. But claims there are, and they come from some notable authorities.
Dowd’s statement would provide a good starting point to evaluate these claims were there not powerful reasons to question not simply his objectivity, but his basic lawyerly reasoning".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/06/us-president-donald-trump-obstruct-justice-yes-he-can