But it was also crucially a federal Criminal Investigation diverted and delayed and tampered with. The federal Criminal Investigation into the crimes for which Michael Cohen went to prison was stymied and heres a key point. It wasnt just the federal Criminal Investigation, because while all of this was going on, at the federal level, the investigation into Michael Cohen, the attempted investigation of people beyond cohen who participated in the same crimes, trump, the revelation of trumps personal culpability for the crimes, they reached down and put the brakes on the whole thing. Right . A corrupt federal Justice Department acting to protect the president. It had the effect of stymying a