CNN legal analyst Shan Wu on Monday blew up claims that special counsel Robert Mueller is only bagging associates of President Donald Trump for petty "process crimes."
During a CNN segment about the latest developments in the Mueller probe, Wu said that it was ridiculous spin to dismiss getting caught lying to the FBI as the equivalent of jaywalking.
"That term -- process crime -- that's just nonsense," he said. "It's a crime. It's a crime to make false statements to investigators. It's a crime to make false statements to Congress. It's basically perjury. That's a substantive crime, not just a mere process crime."
Wu went on to point out that the sheer volume of lying by Trump associates suggests some kind of coordinated effort to hide the truth from law enforcement officials, rather than accidental memory slips that caused people to make unwittingly false statements.
"When you look at this investigation, the amount of false statement convictions is just unbelievable," he said. "It permeates the entire situation... It also raises questions about what they're so desperately trying to hide at this point."
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