Following former FBI Director James Comey’s blockbuster Senate testimony, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) said Friday that he believes Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the federal investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, may depose President Donald Trump.
Comey testified that Trump asked him to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and that Trump tried to get him to pledge his loyalty. Trump and his outside lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, both charged that Comey had not been truthful in that testimony.
Reed said Friday that it’s now on Trump to tell his side of the story.
“The burden is now on the President to come forth definitively and say what happened,” Reed said on CNN.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked if Reed was saying Trump should make a statement under oath.
“I think that’s ultimately what will happen,” Reed said. “I would expect at some point, not right away, but at some point that Mr. Mueller will would feel he has to depose the President.”
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And I would expect the American people to depose Trump before that.
Excellent, because no way Trump doesn’t lie under oath to Mueller. Pathological liar that he is.
OT, but applicable, I think.
Many years ago, I was teaching the book Treasure Island to a group of middle school kids. After reading the section where Long John Silver is handed The Black Spot (meaning he was deposed as the leader of the pirates) a student handed me The Black Spot, “deposing” me as teacher. I thought it was hilarious, and still have that as a small keepsake of my teaching career.
If only we could just hand Trump and his pirate crew The Black Spot…
Who you gonna trust??
So if he is deposed by the Special Cousel, who resolves any evidentiary disputes? In. a lawsuit, such disputes are resolved by the court or other pending forum. Would the federal district court have that duty here?