Posted on 08/01/2018 3:33:55 PM PDT by mandaladon
Mueller offers to limit investigators’ questions for Trump in special counsel’s latest effort to secure presidential interview(Full Title)
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III indicated this week that he is willing to reduce the number of questions his investigators would pose to President Trump in an interview, renewing negotiations with Trump’s lawyers about a presidential sit-down after an extended standoff, according to two people briefed on the negotiations.
The latest proposal by the special counsel comes as Trump has stepped up his attacks on his investigation and Mueller personally.
For months, Mueller has been seeking to question the president as part of his investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 campaign, which is also examining whether Trump has sought to block that probe.
In a letter sent Monday, Mueller’s team suggested that investigators would reduce by nearly half the number of questions they would ask about potential obstruction of justice, the two people said. It’s unclear which topic or topics would be left out.
The two sides have been at an impasse since March, when Mueller raised the possible threat of subpoenaing the president.
Earlier this summer, Trump’s legal team sought to set specific conditions on an interview and make central topics off-limits — conditions they believed would be dealbreakers for the special counsel.
Among them: that Mueller not ask any questions about actions Trump has taken as president, including his private discussions with then-FBI Director James B. Comey.
Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani told The Washington Post earlier this month that he believe such questions could unfairly expose Trump to claims of perjury.
Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s attorneys, declined to comment on the new Mueller proposal about a presidential interview and and whether the Trump team might accept the offer.
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No need to be “interviewed”. BEWARE.
If Trump sits down with Mule Ear, Rudy is a rat.
An interview will just drag it out even longer
Tell Mueller publicly to pound sand. There was no obstruction, so there is no need to answer questions about it. If there was obstruction, you don’t need to talk to Trump.
Tell horse-face to EFF OFF!
Who in their right mind would voluntarily subjugate themselves to questioning from this partisan, anti-Trump, deep state inquisitor? The President needs to tell him to go pound sand. No actually, the President needs to tell him - YOU'RE FIRED!
Way to go Rudy. /s
No, no, and hell no, bastard Mueller!
No. Trust NOTHING coming from Mueller.
Amen and ditto. PLEASE President Trump = no interview of any kind with Mueller. It would only be a trap. DO NOT DO IT!
Donald J Trump is not going to walk into a perjury trap.
Exactly. Nothing but a trap.
NO.. IT’S A TRAP. PERIOD.
Ask Scooter Libby what happens when you get interviewed about a nonexistent crime.
I would sit down in the interview and have my attorneys object to every question. I would make them speaking objections marking out the Constitutional and statutory problems horse face faces.
Then I would hire Mr. Dershowitz and let horse face take it to the Supreme Court. Let horse face explain why Mr. Trump must sit for an interview about how he obstructed an investigation into a non-existent crime, said “obstruction” being exercising the constitutional powers granted the Executive.
No need for interview. Mueller just needs to issue a final report and hand off any charges to the DOJ to either pursue or drop.
Allow just two (2) questions:
What is your name?
What is your wife’s name?
Both questions must be asked in Japanese...As soon as they hear the answers the interrogators must commit Seppuku...
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