WaPo: Giuliani Met With Mueller Tuesday To Discuss Potential Trump Interview

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH, USA, on July 19, 2016. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, in... Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH, USA, on July 19, 2016. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protestors and members of the media. Photo by Dennis Van Tine/Sipa USA MORE LESS
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Rudy Giuliani, who recently joined President Donald Trump’s legal team dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, met with Mueller on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Giuliani reopened negotiations with Mueller over a potential interview between Mueller’s team and the President, the Post reported, but cautioned the special counsel that Trump and his advisers had voiced “ongoing resistance” to an interview, in the Post’s words.

The Post cited three unnamed people familiar with the talks and noted that Giuliani had “pressed Mueller for clarity” on when the probe would end.

Trump’s lawyers have long insisted, incorrectly, that they expected the part of Mueller’s probe involving Trump would be over “expeditious[ly].

Before FBI agents raided Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel earlier this month as part of a months-long criminal probe, Trump’s team had been in talks with Mueller about a potential interview. The raids, which Trump called “an attack on our country,” reportedly put the fate of that interview in question.

The Post reported Wednesday that Mueller “reiterated” his desire for an interview with Trump as part of his probe of potential obstruction of justice.

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  1. And Cohen is going to plead the Fifth in the Stormy Daniels case.

    Ruh roh.

  2. Meanwhile…

    Here is the filing.

    And a quick stroll down memory lane about what Dotard thinks of people who take the 5th:

  3. His ass should be smaller because of all the bites coming his way.

  4. True, but buckets of extra crispy KFC and boxes of Ho-Hos keep putting the cottage cheese back on.

  5. It looks like the only thing they want at this point is to avoid the §resident being put into a situation in which the truth is an absolute requirement. I am not sure if they have any other strategy at this moment. At times it looks like they cannot multitask and get hung up on one thing only.

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