If he’s “not a target,” why the (*&^ do we have a special counsel?
...not a target?....
Should Trump trust Mueller and Rosenstein to sell him a used Yugo with 10 miles on the odometer only driven by an old lady to church and home,and also believe that he is not a target and can now speak freely and candidly?
One Untouchables episode had Robert Stack as Eliot Ness quickly agree to a lighter sentence for the Claude Akins crook if he would help save an innocent man minutes away from death. Then Ness was asked about it later by Akins and Ness looked puzzled about the deal. “Did I? I don’t remember.” Mueller & Rosenstein may have memory lapses, too.
The DOJ has published regulations which divide people they want to talk to into three categories: targets, subjects and witnesses. A target is someone they have already decided to indict; a witness is someone they believe did nothing wrong, but whom they believe has information relevant to their investigation; and a subject is someone whom they haven't decided yet whether they're a target or a witness. They told President Trump that he's not a target but is a subject. That does not mean the President has nothing to worry about from Mueller. Quite the contrary, actually, because subjects have fewer rights than targets, but can become targets on a moment's notice.