President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is continuing to stall on giving special counsel Robert Mueller’s team any clear answers on whether the President will sit for questioning in Mueller’s Russia probe, according to the Washington Post.
Giuliani told the Post on Monday that he is writing a letter to send to Mueller that will express a “real reluctance” to answering questions about obstruction.
“The president still hasn’t made a decision, and we’re not going to make a final decision just yet,” he told the Post, saying he hopes to send the letter to Mueller on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Last week, Mueller’s team offered to let Trump answer questions about obstruction in writing, but said they’d be interested in asking Trump follow up questions about the written answers in person.
The two sides have been stuck in a standoff since March, when Mueller’s team suggested it could subpoena Trump for an interview. Trump has been enthusiastic about the prospect of a sit-down with Mueller, regularly claiming he can prove there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia to meddle in the 2016 election.
Trump’s also reportedly set on doing the interview with Mueller because he’s convinced he can persuade investigators of his own theory: That their own probe is a “witch hunt.”
I say, let the flim-flam artist attempt to flim-flam Mueller and then wake up in an entirely different reality.
Spankee has no idea how different this will be from bankruptcy or divorce court…
You can just sense the sincere hand wringing going on in the WH.
"Wow, we really, really do so want to cooperate with the SC but well, we need it to be fair, and gosh gee wilikers, we just don’t think the deal is quite right for us. But let me remind you, the preshitident is so, so very anxious to in fact tell the whole story…
How 'bout a Fresca?"
I imagine the SOB felt a real reluctance to give $25 million to the defrauded customers of Trump University but unfortunately he had to do it anyway. That’s how the legal system works. Your negative emotions about being investigated really don’t enter into it.
Trump is perfectly willing to sit down with Mueller for an interview, so long as he doesn’t have to answer questions about (1) collusion/conspiring with the Russians; and (2) obstruction of justice.
Seems reasonable!
Yankees are open for discussion, but SC can’t bring up the Mets since they’re in Queens.