Mueller Will Now Accept Trump’s Written Answers On Russian Election Tampering

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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In his newest letter to President Donald Trump’s legal team, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now offering to allow Trump to submit written answers on questions about his campaign’s possible work with Russia to interfere with the 2016 election, according to a Tuesday New York Times report.

Mueller has reportedly not ruled out an in-person interview with Trump, though the letter did not ask for answers on obstruction of justice questions, leading team Trump to think that a sit-down with Mueller could be much less expansive in scope than they feared.

The new offer comes as details from Bob Woodward’s White House memoir, “Fear,” ricochet around Washington, including one episode where Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd reportedly told Mueller that Trump is too dumb to testify.

“I’m not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot,” Dowd says in the book. “And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, ‘I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?’”

Mueller reportedly replied: “John, I understand.”

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  1. Not an easing up; he’s boxing Trump in. Going to be as hard to lie in written responses as in person.

  2. John Dowd reportedly told Mueller that Trump is too dumb to testify.

    If only there were something in the Constitution that could help …

    Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal
    officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress
    may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate
    and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written
    declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and
    duties of his office …

  3. In all God’s Kingdom there may be no creature more lowly than the headline-writer.

  4. Oh, good. Now Mueller will have written proof that Donald committed perjury.
    And what’s with the “eases up” in the headline? It’s not like Mueller is on his knees begging President Fat Ass to send him his Crayola-written answers.

  5. I think Mueller has already figured out, Mr. Dowd, that Donald Trump is too dumb to figure out the complexities of toilet paper.

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