In Rambling Response, Trump Says It’s ‘Unlikely’ He’d Sit For Mueller Interview

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg at the White House in Washington, DC on January 10, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo cred... US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg at the White House in Washington, DC on January 10, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday danced around a question about what parameters he would set for a potential interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. He eventually said “it seems unlikely that you would even have an interview,” given the his assertion there hadn’t been any collusion between him or his associates and Russia.

During a joint press conference with Trump and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Fox News’ John Roberts asked the President about a potential interview between himself and Mueller, the approach to which, the Washington Post and NBC News reported Monday, is the subject of debate within the President’s legal team.

“Are you open to meeting with him? Would you be willing to meet with him without condition? Or would you demand that a strict set of parameters be placed around any encounter between you and the special counsel?” Roberts asked. 

Trump repeated eight times in his response that no collusion had yet been found between him or his associates and Russia. (Congressional and federal investigators’ probes are ongoing.)

He also highlighted the conditions under which Hillary Clinton was interviewed in July 2016 by the FBI during the bureau’s investigation of her use of a private email server. Trump incorrectly asserted that the FBI agents interviewing Clinton didn’t take notes — they did — and asserted “a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was.”

After he bobbed and weaved, the President gave his real answer: “We’ll see what happens. Certainly I’ll see what happens. But when they have no collusion and nobody has found any collusion, at any level, it seems unlikely that you would even have an interview.”

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  1. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    No sane lawyer would allow a pathological liar to sit down to an interview under oath with a Federal Prosecutor. Then again no sane attorney would work for Trump

  2. OK…so he can’t have an ‘interview’ because he ‘knows’ there was no collusion. Amazing. He just wants to TALK with you Donnie…what DO you have to hide?

  3. Since there are no words in this post I’m not posting theres no reason to post the post with no words, and everyone here agrees there are no words in this post so really no reason to post it. Why would I post a post with no words when there are no words in the post?

  4. I think the most important thing to take away from all of this is that there was no collusion.

  5. I assume none of the reporters bothered to correct him on the Clinton interview either?

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