found online by Raymond
From Tommy Christopher:
But then Giuliani added that “if, for example, a president said, leave office or I’m going to, you know, have your kids kidnapped or I’m going to break your legs — I prosecute a lot of obstruction cases.”
“I’ll give you an example,” Giuliani continued. “When the president said, ‘Please go easy on Flynn,’ I know of no obstruction case that begins with the word please. It goes something like this, ‘If you don’t go easy on Flynn, I’ll break your kneecaps.”
But the federal obstruction of justice statute does not, in fact, require an act like the ones Giuliani describes, although it does include them as examples of obstruction