Mueller Won’t Allow Trump To Answer Interview Questions In Writing

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, special counsel on the Russian investigation, leaves following a meeting with members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on June 21, 2017. / A... Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, special counsel on the Russian investigation, leaves following a meeting with members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on June 21, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump will not be allowed to answer special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions in writing, a method Trump’s legal team thinks will help protect the President from lying or making misleading comments, CBS News reported.

Trump’s new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told CBS that Mueller’s team rejected the Trump team’s request to conduct the interview in writing, but the former New York City mayor said they will continue to negotiate with investigators about the terms of the interview once he has a few weeks to catch up on facts of the investigation. If the two teams are unable to come to an agreement and Trump is subpoenaed for an interview, Giuliani told CBS that he will fight the subpoena. If further negotiations aren’t successful they will challenge it in the Supreme Court, he said.

Giuliani also suggested that he wants to wait until after Trump returns from a summit with North Korea on denuclearization to prepare the President for an interview with Mueller.

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  1. It will be good when this finally does reach SCOTUS. They can then decree Trump is in fact above the law and we can all dispense with the futile hope the Republic can be salvaged.

  2. Gee, we really need to thank Rudy for filling us in on all the good stuff we have been missing up to now.

    Well, except when PeeBrain’s thumbs start itching and he can’t hold back the confessional tweets.

  3. Giuliani is going to prepare Spanky for the interview. WOW. After Spanky, he is be the most ill-informed, arrogant, and stupid person in the world. It will be like Beavis and Butthead studying for a quantum physics exam.

  4. Doesn’t precedence weigh in here? Didn’t Clinton and Nixon have to comply with the subpoenas?

    God, I hope you are SO wrong about that one.

  5. Just tossing this in from Josh’s post the other day about the timeline:

    I want to follow up on a point I made over the weekend: the Trump Family’s decisive turn to paying cash as opposed to financing their projects with debt starting in 2006 isn’t just an odd and hard to explain in itself. The shift also dovetails almost perfectly with his shift to reliance on money from Russia and Ukraine. 2006 is also the year when Michael Cohen went to work for the President. It’s also the year the Trump Soho development project got underway.

    He married Melania January 22, 2005. He divorced Marla in June of 1999 but was already pursuing Melania. I would not be the least bit surprised if Melania is a honey pot.

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